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7 r- s- I THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA. MINN. W. E. tiANNAFORD, Publisher. Now that there is a shirt and collar trust, collars may be higher than ever. England's proposed Academy of Let ters will be a failure unless she gets some great figures in it. Now that Mrs. Dowie has been or dained, it is safe to say that she is as good a man as her husband. A Texas editor recently wrote to one of his correspondents. "Oil has taken the place of politics down here." Oil is pretty slippery, too. Premier Laurier says that the Alaskan boundary is unsettled. No doubt it will be unsettled if Canadian political strat egists can effect that result. Pennsylvania has enacted a law estab lishing courts for juvenile offenders. Two years ho nee Wisconsin will have another hance to adopt this reform. The commencement season will soon be under way, and will fully demonstrate :hat this great and glorious country's gushers are not confined to Texas. The new Chicago city directory will claim an increase in the population of t!4.000 since the taking of the census of 1000. But a directory estimate is not an actual count. The Omaha newspaper man who says that the highest ambition of his life is to have two pairs of suspenders at one time has probably never thought of going to Chicago Hold-ups are altogether too numerous in Chicago. Kaiser Wilhelm will no longer permit the publication of stenographic reports of his speeches. The newspapers will have to print what he meant to say. This will give the readers better-considered speeches, but less entertaining. The corn exports of the United States last year amounted to 213,000,000 bush els. Europe took 193,000,000, against only 24,000,000 in 1890. The result of Uncle Sam's corn propaganda is a con vincing demonstration that it pays to advertise. From the report of "profane yells" hurled at Col. Mills by the young men cf the Jiilitary Academy, it appears that tabasco is not the only kind of sauce known to the would-be future command ers who are studying the art of war at West Point. The Chicago Natural History Society has proposed for itself as" a task meet for Twentieth Century ambition the muz zling of cats, to keep them from killing song-birds. It has perhaps not occurred t,o these benevolent enthusiasts that this would also keep the- cats from killing mice. There is no argument against filial love in the. fate of theChicagoburglarwhowas tracked by his mother's picture which he wore in his buttonhole. The only lesson the incident conveys is that when burg lars go forth to ply their craft they should leave their mothers' pictures at home. Milwaukee is not the only city whose officials are directing attention to sani tary conditions in saloons. Newark, New Jersey, has a board of health which has abolished the bar-room towel. Mi crobes that believe in expansion by col onization will probably look upon the re moval of the towel as a heavier blow at their policy than the inspection of fau- Whn the British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs declared in the House of Commons the other day that Great Brit ain's credit is the highest in the world, he uttered a taradiddle, donchuknow, un less he meant to be understood in a meta phorical sense. In that sense British credit has been knocked higher than (iilderoy's kite by the result of the Boer war. It is stated that the newest wrinkle In Chicago public schools—"blackboards" of red, blue, green and yellow—has been adopted with the idea of enabling the children to gain a notion of color. Pos sibly the yellowness of the Chicago press has been put on with the intention of educating older people in the same direc tion. This is a progressive age—in Chi cago- "Parting the hair in the middle is a sign of degeneracy," said Anthropologist Starr, in lecture to his class in the University of Chicago. The sex which parts its hair in the middle will have an incredulous smile for Prof. Starr. Possi bly the anthropologist did not mean what he said. Possibly he referred only to men. But the late James Russell Low ell parted his hair in the middle. What is the matter with Anthropologist Stare? Interesting statistics have just been is sued by the German postal authorities. The German craze for sending illustrated postal cards showing views of cities and landscapes is well known in this country. To what extent this custom has grown may be gathered from the fact that dur ing one single week no less than 10,128, f»t9 such cards were sent through the German mail. These 10,000,000 cards, a German cotemporary says, would, if piled up, form a column 11,468 feet high. Their weight exceeds 36 tons. Dr. McNamara, in a lecture recently delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, supplemented the Darwinian theory of man's descent from the ape by explaining why the latter can not talk. It has been proved, he said, that man and the anthropoid ape come from the same stock, but the ape cannot talk because it lacks the nerve center that in man controls the faculty of speech. The anterior lobes of the ape's brain, containing the part that controls speech, are defective, because the skull is ossified, during the animal's first year, into a rigid closed case that keeps the brain from expanding. Hie slfull of, man does not consolidate until the ndtylt age has been reached, so that the:'anterior 6,7 lobes and speech nerve-centers can go on developing until the twentieth year. Slang is objectionable from certain points of view. But here on the one hftnd is' the literary hack who describes a book as "along the lines" of a historical ro mance, and remarks that its sales are progressing "by leaps and bounds and here on the other hand is a breezy story of-the-town feuilletonist who states that when his heroine "gets her glad rags on" she "is de limit when it comes to looks." If a critic should declare the style of the former infinitely preferable to that of the latter, wouldn't it jar you? On July 4 next the town of Natick, Mass., which was founded by John Eliot, the famous apostle to the Indians, will celebrate its 250th anniversary. On July 3 there will be a gathering of the de scendants of John Eliot himself, who have scattered into widely-separated parts of the country, and who call theni selvQg indifferently Eliot, Elliot or Elliott. This will be the second reunion of the members of the Eliot family. The first, held in 1875 at Guilford, Conn., was at tended by nearly 200 persons. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, will be the site of one of the most important of the American naval stations on the Pacific. Large machine shop^ and a dry dock will be built and a first-class repair sta tion for warships will be established. Capt. John F. Merry, commandant of the coaling station at Honolulu, has in formed the department that conditions about Pearl Harbor have changed. Sugar planters have extended their plantations and planted cane, and the price of the land has increased. As t^e cost is limited to $150,000 some change in the original site must be made. A report from Consul-General Guen ther, at Frankfort, says that, according to the German papers, Prof. Yoges, the director of the national board of health at Buenos Ayres, has found a remedy for mosquito bites. He discovered it by ac cident during his trip, to Paraguay to study the pest. He had been supplied with all sorts of remedies, among them "naphthalene," an article of no value whatever against the pest but, on using it for mosquito bites he round it of sur prising effect. It neutralizes the poison, even when the spot bitten is greatly in flamed. If fresh bits are. rubbed with naphthalene no swelling follows. EXPENSIVE HINCE PIES. How Tbcy Wrecked a Boy's Snit for Damage*. Johnny Foehl ate five mince pies at one sitting, and this little f^ast cost him exactly $5000. His suit against the Camden and Suburban Railway com pany for that amount for injuries sus tained in being pushed from a car was progressing favorably to him yesterday in the Camden court. Half a dozen doc tors had sworn that he was an invalid as the result of the accident, when Wil lie BroweT, one of Johnny's witnesses, in his rambling testimony, told of John ny's love for pies. Counsel for the trolley company saw a glimmer of hope in this. "Could he eat a whol«? pie?" was asked of Willie. "Why, yes, he ate five within a. few minutes last week," the boy replied. The three lawyers who represented Johnny were on their feet in an instant, demanding of the court to know what mince pie had to do with Johnny Foehl being injured by a trolley car. They wanted this portion of the testimony stricken out. "Well." declared counsel for the trolley company, "any boy who can eat five mince pies at one sitting is not very much of an invalid." The court admitted the mince pie testi mony. Having got into the case, the pies remained to a finish. Counsel for the plaintiff wanted to bring witnesses to prove the pies were small five-cent ones. They were willing to send for a pie to show the jury. The railway company's lawyers conceded that the pit's were small, but contended that even so no invalid could eat five of them. When all of the testimony was in the court, relieving the jury, declared that Johnny Foety had not made out a case. The mince pie testimony had been fatal to it.—Philadelphia North American. THE DEALER'S PERQUISITE. Ocean Captaia's Opinion of Four Acea in Poker Game. According, to reports strenudus efforts are to be made to suppress gambling, frauds on the oceau steamers, relates the New York World. It is said to have at tained disgraceful proportions. The vic tims are many and the card sharpers are bold and defiant. This recalls a story which old Capt. Judkins of the Cunard line—in his day the most famous of At lantic captains—used to tell. There were stringent rules against gambling on the Cunarders. but there was another com pany that was most lenient in the mat ter. One day a hot game was in progress on one of the boats of the latter line. Theve were several iookers-on, among them the ship's captain. «vho had strolled in for a moment. Another bystander no ticed that one of the players, while deal ing, dealt himself cards from the bottom of the pack and fertified himself for four aces. Shocked at the fraud, the by stander looked at the cuptain, but the captain gave no sign of having seen the trick. Pulling him away from the table the bystander said: "Did you see that, captain?" "See what?" -was the retort. "Why, that fellow dealt himself four aces! "Well, wasn't it his deal?" Social Cares of Diplomats. Nations, like small boys, occasionally get in quarrels, and during these "don't speak" periods the greatest care must be exercised to prevent embarrassing oc currences at social functions at the capi tal. Then, too. there are powers which have long-standing feuds which their representatives seek to perpetuate. A case in point is that of Austria and Mexico, The former government did not, until a few weeks ago, recognize the ex istence of the JptTer nation, and several times the secretary of state as the dean of the diplomatic corps was called upon to devise ways and means whereby the envoy of one country might be honored without giving offense to the other.— Cosmopolitan. Bernhardt'8 Big Wedding Present. Yictorien Sardou is just* now receiving congratulations from all parts of the world on the approaching marriage of his daughter with the Comte Robert de Flers. I hear that Mile. Sardou will have a dot of a million of francs, to which Sarah Bernhardt has been the principal contributor, for" it 'was the-great French actress that made the success of Sardou's plays.—Paris Letter to London World. —Large -bodies_ of ore and amazing breadth of deposit have been discovered in the Godivamountain. Tintic, Utah. TUB PANSY PRINCESS. Purple and gold as sunset of the North, Thou Tansy, tell what thought lies h!d in thee Dost dream upon a time when knights went* forth •*•••••. The pomp and splendor of thy court to see? In 1 railingrobep of satin and brorade., Didst relgn a qtieen o'er nations wild'and' vast, Till ruthless Time decreed their suns should, fade, Their glories be but ashes of the past Close, to thy side, all fierce in blacl end gold, A pansy warrl&r guards thee still wlih en re: Dost thou recall a day when, over-tiold. He wooed thee with the sunlight on his hair? And near in shadow, pale as some sweet saint. A snow-white pansy opens to the day— A pious nun ^ith pallid lips and fnint. Who bows her head the while she seenis to pray. For thee. O pagan princess of the dawn, For thee, O warrior knight of valorous deeds. Tlie pale nun prays, with downcast fnc? and wan. While through her fingers slip the silent beads. And is it true that all the prayer and love. And all the wealth and worldliness of powers. When centuries have come and gone, will prove Mere memories in thoughtful pansy fiow ers? —Gertrude Xeres in Smart £e DESTINED BY FATE. placed the The waiter ostentatiously small bill before her. "One and a penny, please, miss." Raymond Hillyard, handsome and dis tinguished looking, sitting opjgsite, glanced up with assumed lazy indiffer enc-e and resumed eating. The waiter was busy whisking about his napkin, preparatory to being paid. "Some more coffee, please." said the girl. "I'll remain a little longer." Thf man disappeared, shortly return ing with the order. She began to sip her coffee very slowly. Her table companion had ample opportu nity of studying her. What he saw was this: A broad, smooth forehead, with dark, hair clustering in rebellious curls around her temples a pair of deep gray eyes, with long lashes: a short, straight nose a dear little mouth, and a rather square jaw, which showed resolution and deter mination. The hands, small, well kept and shapely, were devoid of rings. "Let. me see," he mused, ''the hat cost oiie and sixpence three farthings, and is home trimmed, very neat, and suits her. The blouse was four and eleven off the peg. and the lace round the collar could be bought at any cheap milliner's for seven three farthings the dozen." "Waiter, one omelette aux fins herbs," he said, suddenly, to the man wio hov ered round like a phantom bat. He vanished like lightning. A few minutes later the proprietor strolled up to the table, glanced suspectingly at the girl, coughed once or twice, and then said: "We shall be closing very soon, madam. Are you expecting a friend?" "Yes," was the answer. "I won't wait much longer." Th^ waiter appeared again and added the coffee to th? bill. "Thank you," said the girl "you needn't stand here." The waiter withdrew. Hillyard smiled and began his omelette, which had been brought bin). "Pardon1 me, but I believe I am right in MyiM that yon haven't^t with which tc pay your bill, put iri'(.TilP yard at last, in a low tone, and looking steadily at his companion. "The man ager, I fear, is of the same opinion." For a moment her eyes flashed Indig nantly the mouth quivered. "How dare you speak to me like that?" she said. "What do you take me for?" "I take you for what you are—a lady," he answered, gently. The answer flabbergasted her for a mo ment. She could not meet his scrutiniz ing gaze. "Prajr allow me the favor of adding your bill to mine," he continued, calmly. "You must admit that you are in an awkward corner, and that your friend is a myth." The waiter, somewhat agitdted, drew near again. "Curacao," he ordered sharply, and the gentlman with the napkin disappeared with remarkable celerity. "Really." stammered the'girl, "I—I— don't know what you mean." "I mean what I say," he answered firmly. "I will repeat it again if you wish. I don't believe you have the money with She motioned him to desist. "Hush! hush! You have no right to say that. Don't, please, don't." Her earnest entreaty compelled him to stop. "You cannot deny that I am right?" he demanded, in a manner that plainly showed he would have a direct answer. Her face went a deep crimson. "Yes, you are right," she replied at length, but with a great effort. "It was very, very, wrong, I know, but I was so —so hungry, and I thought that "That it was possible .you would meet with a good Samaritan," put in Hillyard, accurately divining her thoughts. "A very risky game to play. Suppose you had not met me—what then? She laughed uneasily. "But, you see, I did meet you." "Yet you seem very reluctant to allaw me to add your bill to mine." The color flamed her cheeks again. "It must be a loan," she declared, em phatically. "I came here in sheer des peration. You don't know what it is to be poor, and oh! so hungry." "Yes, I do," he answered, quietly. "I am so sorry," she whispered, gently. "I did not know I had no idea I-never' thought—" "Pray, don't apologize," he interrupted," again assuming his lighter vein. "If you are really sorry, you will pass' me your bill." "Believe^ me." she replied, gratefully, handing him the flimsy bit of paper, "I am truly grateful. Fortune has not been too kind to me of late." "Nor to me," said Hillyard. "Dame Fortune is a fickle jade, and has to be treated accordingly. Woo her too much, she often turns and rends you. Treat her with indifference, and she will veer round and fawn upon you." "She has, at any rate, been good to me tonight," said the girl. "One moment. I shall consider this -bill a debt of honor. Where can I send yon the amount? It-^ it is not much, is it?" .. "Too mjtch for you to pay now,' though,". he answered, laughing. He produced his card, which bore his name and address. She put it carefully in her purse. "I will send you the amount tomor row." she declared. Hillyard smiled. "To whaf address shall I write an ac knowledgment?" "Oh, Miss Delling, care of Malley's Library, Westminster Bridge road," she replied, hurriedly. "There will be really no occasion to reply," she hastened to add. 1 Hillyard made a careful note of the address. The account was settled. As they quitted the shop the manager bowed and smiled a manner that baffles descrip tion. "May -I see yon to your door? asked Hillyard. "No, I would rathi wouM^SSS-Xa^i?1Cant^o"1^. S^Ja*ry huMs 'Then I insist on seeing you into a cab." "No, I really "Come! I insist." And before she could make further re monstrance he had hailed a hansom. He put her inside, and handed the man two shillings. "I have paid your fare. Where to?" "I will tell the cabman, thank you." "Cerainly," he said, rather coldly, "if that is your wish." He raised his hat. "Good night." "Thank you, oh! so much for- your goodness. Good night." In another moment he had gone. *., "Hillyard, congratulate, me," cried Fairleigh, a handsome young fellow, overflowing^ with good spirits, hurrying into his friend's comfortable chambers, "I'm engaged." "I do congratulate you most 1heartily,'' returned Hillyard,- warmly.... "Who, is the unfortunate lady?" he inquired, siniling. "A Miss Cunningham, Mvhom I met last summer at a friend's, house. The best girl in the world, I assure you." "They are always that," answerg$ Hillyard, quietly. 1 "Oh,.you needn't be so beastly sarcas tic,? put in Fairleigh, "just because •^oujje never been in love." "How db you know that?" asKed Hill yard, ... v- *r" "Because you are not a lady's man at all'.-" r*r "No\ perhaps not," .said Hillyard. He thinking of.^he girl whom he had met at the restaurant. Had he made, such a bad impression on her? He knew she had made a great impression on him. In short, he had fallen in love at first sight.' "Here let me show you her portrait," rattled on Fairleigh, taking a small photo from his lettered. "There, isn't that a sweet- face?" "Very,", declared Hillyard, but with a touch of bitterness, for he realized that all the suhshine had gone -out of his life, for the face he gazed at was the face of the girl whom he had befriended. "It is just like toy ill-luck," he mut tered. "What's that?" asked Fairleigh, sharp ly. "Nothing nothing very happy." "I'm sure we shall. Ta-ta, old. man, I must be off now. I'll look in again soon." "No wonder she gave the name of 'Delling,' mused Hillyard. bitterly. I hope you will be He extracted a postal order from 'his pocket for one and five, and a short note, which ran: "Witli Miss Delling's sincere thanks." "Perhaps." he thought, "I ought to tell young Fairleigh. But, no: it would com promise the young lady. Better leave it as it is. I may be wrong." Then he settled down to write an arti cle, and by the time he had posted it to his typist it was 9 o'clock, so he went to the restaurant where he had met "Miss Delling." Needless to say, he ate his meal in iso lation. Three months passed away. Hillyard was_ unable to find any trace of "Miss Delling," though he had visited Malley's library many timers. Fairleigh had gone to the country pending his coming marriage. Hillyard still kept his secret. It was a strange fate that one day led him to visit his typist's to call' for a manuscript which he especially wished for. But when "Misspelling" came for ward in answer to his inquiry Hillyard was completely taken aback. "You,have certainly succeeded admira bly in keeping out of my way," he .stain-' mered. "Allow nfe to congratulate you on your engagement to my- friend Fair leigh, Miss Cunningham." The girl was. visibly agitated. "flow did you find out my name, was Cunningham, and who told you I was engaged?" "My friend showed me your portrait." "There* is some mistake," she whis pered hurriedly. "Years ago my father left America for England, taking with him my twin sister, leaving me with my mother in America. My father died, and, shortly after, my mother. My name is Cunningham, and I have been trying for months to find the wltere abouts of my sister.. None will ever know what a struggle I have had for ex istence. Can you help me learn wheth er your, friend, is engaged to my sister?" "Believe me- I will do all I can," re turned Hillyard. "Give we three days. This is'Tuesday. Will you meet me at die restaurant on Friday evening at 7?",j She smiled an assent. Thqr dined together on Friday—a hap- S pair. Fairleigh was indeed engaged to iss Cunningham's twin sister, and all* the mystery was cleared up. "But why did yon not give me your proper name?" asked Hillyard. "You—you see yon were quite a Strang* er to me. I thought it was better we should not meet again,", she answered, Fates have thought otherwise," he 8aid, smiling. "Fate has brought jus together again. This time you will have no hesitation in. adding your bill to mlneT* "No, nofce," she MRS. M'KINLEY YEARNS FOR CANTOS. '!vyiv"v' W W V.y-X-SXNXV.V.W,. ^idKeDchome is i• v, E» -j 3 i"1 and yearns to visit her town once more, and remain there for a lone time Peel ing that the Presidents duty calls him to Washington, however, this sweet woman is read" to sacrifice her owT incS th°ei? Canton home* side' abo™ wont—won you add your life to mine, for me to keep always, for better, for worse, till Their eyes met. It was enough.—Pen ny Pictorial Magazine. TRANSLATORS' TROUBLES. Some Curious Instances of How They Handle Idiom*. Some amusing instances of translators' misunderstandings are mentioned by the London Daily News. An Italian paper not long ago turned Kipling's "Absent Minded Beggar" into a "Distracted Men dicant." A foot-note to the same ver sion explained "son of a Lambeth pub lican" as a reference to Mr. Kruger! An other Italian editor, who translated a passage from an English paper about a man who had killed his wife with a poker, added an ingenuous foot-note to say: "We do not know with certainty whether this thing, 'pokero,' be a domes tic or surgical .instrument.". ., In the French version of one of .fScott's novels, a Welsh rabbit has to -be dealt with. The translator, never having met with that article of food, naturally turned it into "un lapin de. Galles," and in a foot note eacplained that the peculiarly deli cious flavor of the rabbits of :Wales^cre atea a large demand for them in Scot land, whither they were exported in bulk that would compare with the trade of Ostend. The desperate expedient of the French translator of Cooper's "Spy," who had to explain how a horse could be hitched "to a .locust," is also worth recalling. He had never heard of a lo cust tree, and rendered the word by "sauterelle," or grasshopper. Feeling that this needed some explanation, he appended a foot-note explaining that grasshoppers grew to a gigantic size in the United States, and that it'.was the custom to place a stuffed specimen at the door of every considerable 'mansion fotf the convenience of visitor^, who hitched their horses to it.' A Modern Solomon. Police Justice John J. Mahoney of Chicago gave a good reproduction of the judgment of Solomon not long ago. Two Germans had each other arrested on the charge of stealing a fine dachshund, which they both claimed. "That dog is mine!" said one. "I wouldn't take $100 for him." "He's mine," said the other. "I think more of that dog than I do of my chil dren." "One of you is mistaken," said the judge. "I cannot decide this matter. I will settle it by letting a policeman take the dog out and shoot him/' "All right." said one of the claimants, waving nis fist in the face of the other man. "Just so you don't get him." "No, don't kill the dog, shouted the other man. "He's too nice a dog to be ruthlessly shot. Let th« other man have him only I hoje, your honor, that you will make a stipulatiofc that he treats him right." "The dog is yours," said the judge to the second man. "Take him home with you." Couldn't Give Her Money. The widow of an early friend applied to James J. Hill for a small loan, writes Mary C. Blossom in the World's Work. She said she was going to open a board ing house. "Sorry. Mrs. X., but can't let you have it. But you'd better get your boarding house started." "Why, Mr. Hill, how can I? I have no money." "Don't,need money.!' "Why,. surely, I must pay for the furniture. "No. you mustn-t get a good house, get.a,bill for six-months' rent, furnish the house, send bills to me. Ill pay 'em—sorry can't let you have any money. Good morning, Mrs. X." Mow Corked Bottles Travel. Numbers of experiments have been made to test the speed and destination of corked bottles thrown into the sea in various parts of the world. The most remarkable example we ever heard of was that in which a. bottle traveled 6000 miles in about two years and a half— roughly, at the rate of six and one-half miles a day. It traveled from 63 degrees south latitude and 60 degrees west longi tude to Western Australia. Tlie Zero Point. Absolute zero is the point at which, as has been determined from experi ments with gises, matter would be with out a trace of heat—could be cooler no farther. This point is 273 degrees below centigrade zero. A degree of cold so in tense as this is, however, absolutely un obtainable. Even the meteorites which swarm in interstellar space must be heated to some extent by the radiarce of the stars, Watch Two Centnries Turner Satr of Sydney, Me., has among numerous other eurios a gold wat$ over 200 years old. It was made in London keeptog S^ct 6WIt WwSntjSS it Washington, it is known that the wife of~the President Photograph shows Mr. and^S. *n the pSch Jf CENSUS OF BRITISH TOWNS. London Has 4,536,034—Thirty Towns Have Over 100,000 Inhabitant*. The first provisional returns from the British census, taken on March 31, have been published. They give the popula tion for the chief towns of England and Wales only, or more exactly, for the county boroughs, which represent the towns for administrative purposes. The population of the administrative county of London, 4,228,317 in 1891, is now, 4, 536,034, an increase in ten years of 307, 717 souls. The population of the city of London proper decreased from 37,705 to 26,908. The figures for the other towns of over 100,000 inhabitants in England and Wales are as follows: 1801. Liverpool 629,548 Manchestei 505,368 Birmlnghan 478,113 Leeds 367,505 Sheffield 324,243 Bristol 280,280 Bradford 265,728 West Ham 204,903 Nottingham 213,877 Klngston-upon-Hull 200,472 Salford 188,139 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 186,300 Leicester 174,624: Portsmouth r*?i Boiton. Cardiff 128,915 Sunderland 131,686 Oldham 131,463 Croydon 102,695 Blackburn 120,064 Brighton 115,873 Preston -107,573 Norwich .:...... 100,970 Birkenhead 99,857 Gateshead 85,692 Plymouth 88,926 Derby 94,146 Halifax 97,714 Southampton 82,126 London and Paris have long had ceme teries for dogs and cats, but New York has been without one until lately. Now, however, a burial ground of three or four acres has been opened at Hartsdale, in Westchester county, and is being im mediately taken advantage of by toe be reaved owners of pets, nearly seventy burials having already taken place there. The woman with, the pet cat was fore most. "Toby," a splendid Angora, rests in peace^in the hew cemetery, in a plush lined mahogany casket (costing somo $30) and under a marble headstone com memorating his pedigree and his virtues. Another pedigreed pet, a French poodle, was buried with his silver collar and leader beside him, an embroidered blanket about his aristocratic form. and accompany the grave.—Harper's Bazar. Where Nature Smiles Lavishly. Venezuela is a country where nature makes millionaires and some of the best of the'money is now coming to citizens of this country who have been down there and used their eyes to good advan tage. The greatest company of Ven ezuela has a capital of $30,000,000, and its headouarters are in Minnesota. There are gold mines which have produced $35,000,000 andjsaid $23,000,000 to their shareholders. 13ie richness of its for ests is beyond calculation, and they will last for centuries. In fact,* no one pre tends to tell all its resources. It has gold, silver, precious stones and a hun dred things that mean wealth and which the world wants and Ma a matter of fact its resources have searcely ..b?en ..touched, so great are they.—Saturdl^r Evening Post. Sore Core for Mosquito Bites. Consul-General GuentHer writes that Prof. Voges, the director of the national board of health at Buenos-Ayres, has found a remedy for mosquito bites. He states that he discovered it by accident during his trip to Paraguay to study the pest. He had been supplied with all sorts of remedies, among them "naphtha lene," an article of no value whatever against the jjest but on using it for mosquito bites he found it of surprising effect. It neutralizes the poi«on. even when the spot bitten is greatly inflamed If fresh bites are rubbed with naphtha lene no swelling follows. The professor' considers naphthalene almost a specific^ .fel against mosquito poison. Uniqne Statues. The proposal to erect a monument' cf •coal to the memory of the Pennsylvaniau who was the first discsverer of co«l as fuel in the Eighteenth century reminds us of the remarkable statues and menu ments that have been made from time to time, says a London newspaper. Of re-'' cent years we have a notable instance uf the Klondike actress whose ^statue was made in gold while when die late Gen. Wauchope returned from the Omdurman campaign his tenants fttesented him with a miniature statuette of himself done in native Scotch-gold. aluMit completely -sr4« I •VLi?: il 1901. 685,276 543,930 522,182 428,953 380,717 328,836 279,800 267,308 239,753 238,562 221,015 214,881 211,574 '4| 168,844 146,828 137,238 133,885 127,527 123,478 120,860 111,728 110,90G 109,891 107,509 105,785 104,997 103,500 .Latest Pads—Cemeteries for Pets. JTm v' mSfe, Hi