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£l)ibo£aux Sentinel.
LINES TO A BLOTTING PAD. ' }
Thou kindly porou3 plaster for the ills
Occasioned by the ink a poet spills.
Absorb unto thyself his many faults
And sponsio his verso where rhyme or rhythm
halts 1
Yet lest perchance thy too retentive touch
Appropriate in passing overmuch.
Pray Isava a trace of what he would imply
We re thought but free and ink allowed to dry,
In former times they sprinkled out the sand
To sweep it off and let the writing stand.
While nowadays a lino is hardly writ
Ere wo regret and seek to alter it
And spend in emendation so much paint
That scarce an inkling of the truth remains.
Bo for the nonce let my poor pen run free
And leave recorded whetso'er it be.
Grant it expression for a Anal line,
And ail that went before i- gladly thine.
Then will this postscript yet sttSec to show,
"I'll lovo sweet Alice long ;:h ink shall flow.''
— if. D. Ellwanger in ifookmun.
PRECEDENCE IN ENGLAND.
The lied Tape That Itnles the Position ol
Women at Table.
To Americans the great question of
precede a co at formal English dinners
presents a humorous aspect:, bat to oar
transatlantic cousins it is deeply serious.
Many an English girl thinks ic worth
while to le miserable all her life if she
may lead the way to the festal board.
Here is the table of rank in its proper
order, which she must have engraved
upon the fleshy tablets of her heart,
complies*; d, moreover, with exact
knowk ilge ;,s to which of two baronets or
earls is ci riio earlier "creation." It is
recommended to the devout study of fu
ture American countesses or duchesses:
The queen.
Daughters cf the queen.
Wives cf tho queen's eons.
Wives t,f the queen's brothers.
Wives cf the queen's uncles.
Wives cf tho iidest sons of dukta of the royal
blood.
Daughters cf dukes of the royal blood.
Wives of the king's cr queen's nephews.
Duchesses.
Xfarchionesses.
Wives cf tiio eldest sens of dukes.
Daughters of dukes.
Countesses.
Wives cf iho eldest sons of marquises.
Daughters of marquises.
Wives cf tho younger sons of dukes.
Viscountesses.
Wive3 of the eldest sons of earls.
Daughters cf earls.
Wives cf tho younger sons of marquises.
Baronesses.
Wives cf the eldest sons of viscounts.
Daughters of viscounts.
Wives cf tho younger sons of carls.
Wives of tho eldest sons of barons.
Maids of honor.
Wives cf tho younger sons of viscounts,
Wives of tho younger sens of barons.
Wives cf baronets.
Wives of Knights of tho Garter.
Wives of younger KnightsGrand Crosses of the
Bath.
Wives of Knights Commanders of the Bath.
Wives of Knights Bachelors.
Wives of tho eldest sons of the younger sons
of peers.
Wives of tho eldest sons of baronets.
Daughters of baronets.
Wives of the eldest sons of Knights of the Gar
ter.
Wives cf the eldest sons of Knights of the Bath.
Daughters of Knights of the Bath.
Wives of the eldest sons of Knights Bachelors.
V.'ivi :> of the younger suns of baronets.
Daughters of knights.
Wives of companions of the Order of the Bath.
Wives of tho esquires of the king's body.
Wives of tho esquires of tho Knights of the
Bath.
Wives of esquires by creation.
Wives of esquires by office.
Wives of the younger sons of Knights of the
Garter.
Wives of the younger sons of Knights of the
Bath.
Wives of tho younger sous of Knights Bache
lors.
Wive3 of gentlemen entitled to bear arms.
Daughters of esquires entitled to bear arms.
Daughters of gentlemen entitled to bear arms.
Wive3 of citizens.
Wive3 cf burgesses.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
PRIVACY NO LONGER.
SCIENCE INVADES EVERYTHING AND
REVEALS ALL SECRETS.
As We Contemplate tho Changes Hade by
Infant Science, Wo Marvel at the Re
sults Which Will Follow When It
Reaches the Age of Manhood.
Already science has made neighbors
of erstwhile far sundered places. Al
ready the feat of girding the earth in
40 minnte3, onc9 ascribed to magical
power, has been left hopelessly behind
by a new and scientific Puck. Already
privacy has become veil nigh impossi
ble, even that, of one's bodily interior
being no longer guaranteed. Already
science has so far conquered the enemies
of life that the living are jostling each
other for elbow room, and already the
nations sleep—if they ever sleep—with
their fingers on the trigger of the latest
magazine rifle. If this be the case in
the green tree, what may we expect in
the dry? If infant science, only 75 yean;
old, has brought this about, what will
science in a state of manhood do for us?
Another question intrudes itself here:
Is the transformation, so far as it has
gone, a gain? Are we the better or the
happier for the achievements of applied
science, or did men, before the new cre
ator was born, live a more human—shall
we say a niore divine—life than is pos
sible now ? 21. Berthelot has no reply
to such queries. He is the embodiment
of the spirit which wrests from nature
ever new powers and turns them loose
npon mankind to fulfill their destiny.
It is not for tho man of science to dis
criminate, for how does he know what
goes to make a new earth? He also
most fulfill his destiny.
Sometimes we read that the age of
romance has passed, but ask the interna
tional congress of applied chemistry
and yon will probably hear that it is
only just beginning; that the most fan
tastic drama of one most imaginative
men are to what will be as humble prose
is to highest poetry. Who can doubt it?
Who can forbear sometimes from at
tempting a conception of the "new
earth?" And how little way can he
whose imagination is most compact ad
vance without a stagger and a fall? It
is no wonder that science lifts her head
and surveys the future with pride.
M. Berthelot promises a new man as
well as a new earth. Given the second,
the first is a necessity, for the old Adam
in a reconstituted Eden would soon fall
from grace again, unaided by tho ser
pent, in whom, by the way, he no lon
ger believes. Ones more imagination
runs riot. This new man—what is he to
be: The new woman we know well
enough to make description superfluous.
The real question is whether wc are to
argue from this feminine to the as yet
undetermined masculine. Let us hope
not, for otherwise the lookout is er
tremely bad. It may be, however, that
the new man of applied science will ex
emplify the mysterious law regulating
forces which neither increase ncr di
minish, but swing backward and for
ward like the pendulum of the tides.
As the woman becomes more and
more mannish—of course, without being
manly—will the new man become more
and more womanish? Wo should like
M. Berthelot to consider that point in
the light of science, which is now, ap
parently, our only guide. Much de
pends cn the solution of the problem,
and it is a very serious consideration
that nothing in tho past can help us tc
it. M. Berthelot is reported as saying
that "the entire social organization is
being transformed amid conditions foi
the comprehension cf which the past
offers no suggestive precedents or data. "
As Mr. Gilbert observes in a state oi
embarrassment, "Here's a pretty how
d'ye do!" We are at sea as to the new
man, without rudder or compass, and ii
is a mere toss up whether he may not
turn out to be simply an old woman.
Our personal concern, truly, is very
small. The man of the present will last
our time, and, with all his faults, he is
good enough for us, especially as we
know nothing better. Bnt we are taught
to identify ourselves with the race, and,
doing so, the question as to man 500
years hence is one not only cf uncer
tainty, but of painful interest. We shall
not be able to repudiate him, but, on
the other hand, ho may disclaim us,
just as many people nowadays scorn
fully reject the theory of man's descent
from the ape. The subject is thus seen
to be one of a very disquieting nature,
and the sooner the international con
gress of applied chemistry or other
learned body throws further light upon
it the better. Surely science can give
some inkling of what its own Adam is
likely to be. We do not ask for particu
lars of his Eden, because we know that
a railway will run through it, and that
suffices, but curiosity as to the recreated
gardener are inevitable. "A good man
and an angel," exclaimed the late esti
mable Dr. Young, "these between.
Eow thin the barrier!" We will hope
for the angel, though science may not
recognize such a creature.—London
Telegraph.
Is Burglary a Science?,
The modem burglar is a scientist and
inventor in his way. Recently a new
era in safe breaking and other branches
of the cracksman's art has opened, and
the famous jimmy, so long rampant on
the successful burglar's coat of arms, is
to be superseded by more convenient la
bor saving tools.
In Marseilles the other day a gang of
ingenious cracksmen entered a banker's
office armed with a steel saw of th3
newest construction and a handy little
gas engine. There was no need for the
exercise of muscle, nor was there any
necessity for a good strong wrist at the
saw, as there was at one time in the
annals of famous robberies.
The little engine was started, the
saw put in the proper place and the
connections made. Seating themselves
serenely upon a couple of chairs near at
hand, these modem burglars watched
the true and rapid work of their appli-'
ances.
The big safe might have resisted for
hours the force of human hands, bnt
the saw, impelled by the engine, it could
not stand against. The stout iron safe
promptly yielded up its contents of
over £600 worth of gold and bonds, and
in a quarter of the time it would have
taken to have committed the robbery
under the old conditions the burglars
were well out of the building with their
booty.—Pearson's Weekly.
A Proscription.
The young woman who takes music
lessons and practices scales had an
nounced to her friends that she was
going away.
"Isn't it rather a sudden determina
tion?"
"Yes. It's the doctor'3 orders. ''
"Why, you don t look the least bit
ilL"
' 'Oh, I'm perfectly well. Auntie is
the one who is sick."—Washington
Star.
Patents In England.
The British government makes no
examination to determine the validity
of a device for which a patent is asked,
but takes it for granted that every in
vention is new and grants a patent to
every applicant, leaving his claim, if
contested, to be subsequently determined
by the courts.
In 1820 the business portion of Sa
vannah was blotted oat by a great fire,
which destroyed property to the value
of $4,000,000.
MONREALE CATHEDRAL.
Thought by Many to Bo "the Noblest
Church In tho World."
Mon reale, by many deemed "the no
blest church in the world," together
with the vast Benedictine abbey and
cloister—"a monastic Alhambra" (now,
alas! falling to ruin)—was created a
cathedral in 1JS2 by Pope Lucius III,
who, looking ou the work, exclaimed,
"The like of this church hath net been
constructed by any king, even from an
eieqt times, and it must compel nil men
to admiration!"
Ic, externally, in the first view of
Monreaic disappointment awaits one,
that may be because on the way there
ouchs eyes have grown too accustomed
to beauty. For that same morning cue
may have seen the sun rise from the
ivio 1 chapel behind Santa Maria ae
Gesu, looked thence down upon the
mountain girdled plain and white domed
city of Palermo curving round the azure
bay, or, climbing Monte • Pelegrinc,
flanked by its sheer precipices 1,906
feet, you may have heard tho noon an
go ins hell float skyward from all Paler
mo's towers Then, as the sunbeams be
gin to slant, the ride up from tho valley
of the Concha Do'ro, under the blossom
starred boughs of almond and orange
trees, past the old convent, of San Mar
tino—gray hermit, cowled in pines—up
and up to if on reale.
If the demo appears small and the
towers plain tho eastern portal compen
sates for ail. Great richness is produced
by the mode of its ornamentations, .the
interlaced arches, upheld by slender pil
lars, being formed of alternate blocks of
black and white marble, the panels di
versified with multicolored mosaics.
The three beautiful doors are of bronze
elaborately adorned with Scriptural de
signs and arabesques, the largest one
executed by the architect of Pisa's lean
ing tower.
Within the blending of different
styles is remarkable. It is in form, accord
ing to the founder's wish, a Latin cross.
Its columns aie borrowed from Roman
temples, their capitals Greek. The By
zantine mosaics, in which Monrealo is
the richest of all mediaeval churches,
wrought upon a gold ground, time has
mellowed into a delicious purple haze
of glory. The nave is ample, and the
arches slightly pointed. Narrow win
dows cast a tempered radiance over the
flat, gorgeously embellished roof. There
is a single aisle. The east end consists
of three apses, the largest one terminat
ing in the high altar.
Above it, unique in design, is the fa
mous fresco, a half length figure ci
Christ, so colossal that the whole ec. i
fice seems a mantle thrown about it.
The right hand is outstretched in bene
diction; the left holds an open book
wherein is written, "I am the light cf
the world. "—Ave Maria.
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BIRD AND ANIMAL EYES.
Made Artificially In Great Variety anc
For Many Uses.
Artificial eyes in imitation of the eyes
of birds and animals are made in great
variety. They aro used in mounting
birds and animals a3 specimens. Birds'
eyes are used in mounting birds for mil
linery trimmings. Animals' eyes are
used for tli3 heads in fur rugs, and both
bird and animal eyes are used for many
other purposes—for example, for eyes in
cane and umbrella heads made in imi
tation of animals, for many kinds oi
toys and so on. Artificial eyes arc alsc
made for some Jiving animals. It is not
uncommon for horses to have glass eye?
and dogs aro sometimes provided with
them. In at least one case a calf has
been supplied with one, but most artifi
cial eyes aro for use in mounting nat
ural specimens and in tho manufactur
ing uses above referred to.
The eyes are made, cf course, in imi
tation of nature, and many cf them arc
beautiful. The stock that the manufac
turer or dealer keeps always on hand i;
wonderful in its variety. There is nc
eye that could not be supplied. Here
are humming birds'eyes and alligators'
eyes, tigers' eyes and swans' eyes and
eyes for owls, and for eagles, and foi
birds of all kinds and sizes; eyes foi
mounted fishes, eyes for the bear, the
lion, the panther, the fox, the squirrel,
the dog, and the wolf and for other an
imals to be mounted, and eyes for imi
tation pigs and dogs, sheep and cats,
and so ou.
Artificial eyes for birds and animals
are sold chiefly to taxidermists, to fur
riers and to the various manufactur
ers. They are sold in pairs. The num
ber sold in the aggregate is very large.
The busiest season is tho fall and win
ter.—New York Sun.
To Resew Old Fens.
When a pen has been used until it
appears to be spoiled, place it over a
flame, a gaslight, for instance, for n
quarter Gf a minute, then dip it into
water, and it will be again fit for use.
A new pen which is found too hard tc
write with will become softer by being
thus heated.
That Settled It.
Peterson—Do yon suppose that young
Pipps fias serion-t intentions?
Mrs. Peterson—Undoubtedly. I heard
him ask Lanra last night whether yon
were a partner in the firm or if you
merely worked on a salary.—Cleveland
Leader.
When bad weather is imminent,
swallows fly low, because at such times
the insects which constitute their food
keep near the ground, and the swallows
are forced to follow them cm to Iowa
regions than at other seasons.
SLAV* RAIDS IN AFRICA.
3Ioro Than • Hamlrfd Tillages Destroyed
In One Campaica.
As we approached the falls we saw
that the river banks had been depopulat
ed and the villages were in ashes. We
passed dead bodies floating in the river.
Canoes vvero standing on end like hol
lowed columns; crowds of fugitives
were afloat and hiding among the reody
islands. These were all signs of a gen
eral terror, but we could get no infor
mation of it 3 character. Vague ideas of
an invasion from some savage tribe
came to our minds? and now and then
wo had a misgiving that there xnnst be
Arab slavers in the neighborhood.
Continuing our ascent, on the thirc
day we came in sight of a huge Arab
camp on the right hank, and before long
we discovered that the Arabs of Nyan
gwe (Livingstone's farthest point), hav
ing heard the most exaggerated reports
of oar successful descent of the Kongo
in 1877, had hastened after ns to reap a
harvest of ivory and slavey. They had
been too successful. Over 118 villages
had been destroyed below Stanley falls
alone, a rich plunder of ivory was in
their camp, and several hundred slaves,
old and young, were herded like goats
and heavily fettered in the slave pen. It
then appeared that while we had been
negotiatiug with tho negro chiefs along
tho river, making roads, building sta
tions and hauling steamers overland,
tha Arabs of Nyangwe had been coming
down tho river, laying the country
waste. Wo had at last met, about 59
miles below the falls. A glance at the
scenes of the camp was sufficient to re
veal what a future awaited the Kongc
valley bad we not conceived the project
of opening the river to civilizing influ
ences. Thero was not a moment to lose.
We had no authority to open fire on the
miscreants. They were subjects of the
Prince of Zanzibar, who was a protege
of England, and to plnnge into hostili
ties with them might possibly involve
ns in serious complications. But while
we dared not use fore* we believed that
by continuing the same system we had
found so successful with the native
chiefs we could check the audacity ol
the slaver3 by our mere presence among
them. After some days spent incautious
and friendly negotiations with the
Arabs we were permitted to establish a
station at the falls, and after seeing it
well advanced we turned the prows oi
our steamers down river toward Leo
poldville.—Henry M. Stanley in Cen
tury. ___
No Kick Coming.
One day when a ooupe driven along
Broadway at the rate of ten miles an
hour had come within a hairbreadth
of running me down I followed it np fat
three or four blocks nntil it came to a
halt beside the curbstone.
"Do you know." I said to the driver,
who grinned as he saw me approach,
"that you nearly ran me down tea min
utes ago?"
"Yes, sir," he promptly replied.
"You had me in between your car
riage and a cable car, and it was a close
call."
"Yes, it was, sir."
"You didn't even try to pull up your
horse," I persisted.
"No, sir."
"Then yon didn't care whether you
ran me down or not?"
"No, sir."
"Well, that's cool! Are you in the
habit of killing people who may be
crossing tho street as you come along?"
"Not in tha habit, no, sir. You see,
it was this way. A gent picks me np at
tho Fifth Avenue and wants to git down
to tha Star theater in five minutes. 1
can t git him there in five, but I can in
eight if there isn't a block and tho
wheels stay on, and I does it and gets 50
cents extra."
"But where do I come in?"
"You? Why, you escaped with your
life, and there's no kick coming to you.
Wait till you are run down and killed
and then let the widdy do the kickin. "
—Detroit Free Press.
To Be Bxpeetod.
There was recently a public sale of
the effects of a deceased artist who,
though he never had any money and
was always at the end of his resources,
had managed to accumulate a consider
able amount of bric-a-brac, chiefly for
use in bis trade.
All these things were sold for the
benefit of his needy widow.
Among the items on the published
catalogue was the following eloquent
one:
"One money box, decorated, quite
uii'j-t u. ''—Youth's Compauion.
The Reason.
At a recent wedding in an English
town the officiating minister asked how
fae name, cf one of the witnesses was
spelled, to which he received the reply,
McHugh. ' ■ The minister then in
quired how it was that the witness
spelled his uamo in that way when his
sifter spelled hers "McCue," to which
the witness responded, "Please, sir,
my sister and me didn't go to the
school."
Preserving Flowers.
One having a fancy for preserving!
natural flowers may do so by dipping
them into melted paraffin. The mixture j
should be only warm enough to remain i
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wtash ,h«,nH b« Sw from «U except!
the natural moistoi* dip them in the I
fluid, give them s *____ k ____
.'P* Hfin to remove I
the air oella, and pla* feem i
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POTATOES, EGGS, HONEY, BEES
WAX, TALLOW WOOL, HIDES,
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With a view of e» iarjiicT tlie tews of*
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measurint: trie BsjjM
tout-clip, Mtnntfi bi jwpfu LockportaW'f
Catholic Chorob, into u wn lots,
offered for sal,-.
Fei-sons liesiriiig to buy anil to I
that beautiful village should write or«
me for full particulars.
K. BAI