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MAY CARRY A MAN.
Flying Huge Kites With Lighted
Lanterns for Tails.
An Army Officer’s Experiments
on Governor's Island.
Licutenant H. D. Wise, Unitcd
Stutes Army, stationed at Governor’s
Island, has been experimenting for
some time with kites for use by the
Sizual Corps of the, Army. He has
obscrved a rigid silence regarding his
work, but the sight of the kites has
frequently attracted the attention of
bostmen, ferryboat passengers and
persous along the Battery.
‘lhe kites bhad no tails, and yet
were apparently not of the ordinery
variety of tailless kites, so far as
could be distinguished with the naked
eye, while even with the aid of a glass
it was difficult to determine their
exact character. A star-gazer thought
be had discovered a new comet Gov
ernor’s Islandward the other evening,
but izquiry revealed that the Licuten
ant was out kite-flying, and was light
ing the aecrial path of the curious
high-flyers with lanterps.
There was another exhibition of
kite-flying later, which attracted un
wonted attention, for attached to
one of the kites was nothing less than
the dausgling form of a man. It was
suspended fully a quarter of a mile
above the earth, and wheu once the
kite took a sudden lange downward it
is safe to say that many a witness at
the Battery felt his heart jump.
The experiments of Hargreave and
bis announced intention to make an
ascent by means of a kite to demon
strate its usefuluess in military recon
noitre may bave prepared some of the
onlookers for Yhe sight they witnessed.
Investigation, however, showed that
the form was only a dummy. It was
dressed in uniform and weighed forty
pounds. Perhaps a weightier dummy
will be tested before a live soldier es
says the perilous ascent. That is the
eventual purpose of Lieutenant Wise's
experiments, however. Without such
details as the Lieutenant could give,
the following description of the kites
was obtained, and was said to be
approximately correct:
Two kites, if they may be called
kites, were employed. A quarter inch
rope was used, and the kites were at
tacued to it, 400 feet apart. The
lower kite was twice the size of the
upper oue, and beneath it the dummy
was attached.
The kites are built on the acroplane
priuciple, both in the same way. The
jarger one is a box frame, nine feet
square on the main surface and thirty
inches deep. It is merely a frame,
representing the edges of a box of
tbhose dimeansions, but the space with
in the frame is a network of wood and
wire braces
Around either end of this frame is
wrapped a piece of light sail cloth
about thirty inches wide. If the box
were solid instead of an outline frame,
it might be likened to a sqnare cigar
box, bound at either end with revenue
stamps or labels. The wind bhas free
play in one end and out the other, as
well as through the centre, between
the bands. The kite-cord is attached
to the interior net-work of braess in
the centre.
Given a start and held so that the
wind plays throngh the ends, thiscon
trivance ascends as an aeroplane, the
cord being at an angle varying from
fifty to sixty degrees, while the kite
preserves a remarkable equilibrium
and steadiness, The smaller one hav
ing been started, it lifts the larger
one, aud the two ascend at rapid
speed.
A windlass is used for paying out
the cord, as four men were unable to
hold the kites without its aid. When
taken in they settled easily to the
ground.
Licutenant Wise refused to talk
about his experimen}s or his device
after the kites were taken in.—New
York Times.
A Chinese Telegram,
Chinese is the only language that
canuot be telegraphed. So a cipher
system has been inveuted, by which
wessages can be sent.
The sender of the message need not
bother himself about the meaning. He
may telegraph all day without the
slightest idea of the information he is
sending, for he transmits only numer
-8.5
It is very different with the receiver,
Lowever. He has a code dictionary
at Lis elbow, and after each message
is received he mast translate it, writ
ing each literary character in the place
of the numeral that stands for it
Oualy about an eighth of the words in
the written language appear in the
code, but there are enough of them
for all praetical purposes.—New York
J.»;zrntl
The Thousand Islands.
It is gratifying to know that the
Dowpinion Government has withdrawn
from sale such of the Thousand Is
lands of the S*. Lawrencs: as have not
been parted with already and that
tiere 1s a probability of their being
purchas:d by the Oatairo Government
as a national park. The sale of the
Islands was an act of inconceivable
vandalism, and it probably cost the
administration a good many votes,
Unfortanately it is scarcely possible
to undo the mischkief. —Ottawa (Cana
dian) Citizen,
Measure for Measare,
*“I say, Joe, what happens to a man
who swallows a thermometer?”
“Dies by degrees. Pshaw! But do
you know what becomes of the man
who takes in 2 tape measure?”
“Eh?"
“Dies by incie«"—The Water
bury.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
To make laws complete they should
reward as well #8 punish.
Manuers are the final and perfect
flowers of noble character.
Hubits are soon assumed ; but when
we strive to strip them off, "tis being
flaved alive.
Do the duty that lies nearest you;
the second duty will already have be
come clearer,
It's an awfal long distance between
the pulpit and the most desirable pew
in some churches.
The man who says he can love but
once usually has himself for the ob
ject of his affections,
The world owes every man a living;
and the laborer is simply the bill col
lector of the millionaire,
We may all be equal before the law,
but there’s usually a mighty sight of
difference in us afterward.
There is work in the world for
every man to do, but some of them
are fortunate enough to be able to hire
gome one else to do it.
A man Las no more right to say an
uneivil thing than toact one; no more
right to say a rude thing to another
than to knock him down.
High winds are as little affected by
unworthy retarns for services as the
sun is by those fogs which the earth
throws up between herself and the
light.
The Germ of Death.
The germs of cholera,diphtheria,con
sumption—ofnearly all the diseases in
a word—bhave been identified and pho
tographed. Measures have been taken
to exterminate them or to nullify
their pernicious activity in the human
system. Now we have the bacillus of
death itself,
A Brooklyn physician, after close
microscopical research, has discovered
in the corpuscles of human blood the
germ whose life is death—the death
of mankind. The physician who has
made this startling discovery is G.
Fish Clark, of No. 515 Decatur street,
Brooklyn. :
Dr. Clark is now studying the
germ’s habits with the vi-w to devis
ing means that will distroy it, or, at
least, keep it at bay.
Dr. Clark is confident of success.
Heo believes he can kill the death
germ or at all events so check its rav
ages that life may be greatly pro
longed. ¥ He does not go so far as to
say that longevity equal to that which
prevailed in the days of Methuselah
will be attained, but he is confident
that he has a clue to the secret of the
remarkable ages which he Dbelieves
men ia remote generations attained.
Dr. Clark is a graduate of the Hah -
nemann Medical College of Philadel
phia, and he has been in practice in
Brooklyn for a number of years, In
addition to his regular routine pro
fessional work he has long devoted
much time to microscopical research
and to the study of the germ theory of
disease.
It was in the course of studies of
this kind, consisting of microscopiecal
examinations of human blood corpus
cles, that he made the discovery of
what he believes to be the veritable
germ of death—the “‘Mortis Bacillus”
as he has named it.—New York
World.
Fortunate Accidents.
A large number of the world’s
greatest inventions have been the re
sult of some accidental wunion of
forces, the nature of which the person
who started them neither understood
vor suspected. The working of dyna
mos at long distances apart, when
properly connected, was discovered
by acecident. A scientific jonrnal
says: ‘“‘Soon after the opening of the
Vienna Exposition in 1873, a careless
workman picked up the ends of a
couple of wires which he found trail
ing along the ground. He fastened
them in the terminals of a
dynamo, to which he thought
they belonged, while they were really
attached to another dynamo that was
running in another part of the
grounds. The dynamo to which he
fastened the wires was not running,
but as soon as the wires were placed
in its terminals it revolved as if a
steam-engine was driving it. The
workman was amaz d. The engineers
and electricians were astonished by
the discovery that a dynamo electric
machine (tarned by steam power)
would turn another similar machine a
long distance away, if properly con
nected to it by electric wires. Thus
originated one of the most revolution
ary applications of electricity.
The fact that power can be trans
mitted for miles by electric wires is
one of the most important factors in
wmodern civil engineering achieve
ments. —Ledger.
Utility of the Burro.
Lieutenant P. G, Lowe, Fourth In
fantry, who is at Fort Leavenworth,
in company with Corporal Keister,
Eighteenth Infantry, has just com
pleted a tramp of 850 miles from EI
Paso, Texas, to Fort Clark, Texas
The journty was made to test the
utility of the burro for transpcrtation
purposes, and it took four months to
a day. The burro carried a baggage
varying in weight from 125 to 127
pounds, and the average daily jonrney
was cight miles. The maximum dis
tance covered in one day was twenty
six miles and the minimum seven
miles. The burro was permitted to
choose its own gait. Lieutenant Lowe
will prepare a paper on the subject.
New Orleans Picayune.
The North British Railway bas in
its service an ep vineer named John
Henderson, aged 78, who during fifty
years of service has never had an ac
cident happen to his train,
SCIENXTIFIC SCRAPS.
A raip-proof umbrella with trans
parent cover enabling the user to see
where he is going has been invented
in England.
A telegram from the Lowell Obser
vatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, announces
that the Martian canals, Phison and
Emphrates, Lave been observed
donbled.
Tue largest clectric-power trans
mission successfully in use is said to
be at Frcsno, Cal. The distance is
thirty-five miles. The power is de
rived from a waterfall furnishing
1,500-horse power.
A French experimenter, Camille
Dareste, has found that the germ in
the hen’s egg is not destroyed by an
clectric current that would kill an
adult fowl, but ihat the germ isso
modified in most cases that a mon
strosity will be hatched. 2
Paris park policemen have been
supplied with electric dark lanterns
with which they can see 150 feet away.
These lanterns enable the park police
man to be very successful and swift in
his midnight raids on the homeless
who seek the boulevards and parks for
rest and sleep.
It is reported in Paris, where puecu
matic tires bave been introduced on
some of the cabs, that in consequence
of the lessened shock of the vehicles,
the cost of repair has been reduced
fifty per cent., to say nothing of the
saving to the nerves of passengers and
the muscles of horses.
A successful series of experiments
has been concluded at Toulon, France,
with a new invention for destroying
submarine mines and fixed torpedoes.
A torpedo-boat fitted with the appara
tus had no difficulty in passing
through a passage stndded with mines,
all of which were prematurely explod
ed and rendered harmless.
Pavements made of granulated cork
mixed with asphalt have proved sue
cessful after two years’ trial in Lon
don aud Vienna. They never get
slippery, are odorless, clean and elas
tic without absorbing moistnre. Near
the Great Eastern station in London,
where the rush is so tremendous, the
wear in two years amounts only to
one-eighth of an iuch.
A Hungarian Keely named Hartz
has patented in France a cheap eleec
trical storage battery, in which the
eiectricity is generated by the vibra
tions of the transverse rays disclosed
by Roentgen’s experiments under the
pressure of atmospheric air. He
asserts that his apparatus can keep
twenty lamps of ten ecandle power
going for 8,000 hours.
Informing the Old Genileman,
She had accepted him, and h: was
very happy, uutil she broke in on his
bliss by suggesting that the little for
mality of seeing papa had better be
gone through without delay. It would
be all right, of course. No parental
objection would be made, but he must
be asked for bhLis consent, just as
though he really had some say about
the matter.
The young man demurred. He
shrank from telling Mr. Dinsmore
that he loved Ida and Ida loved him,
and that Ida’s papa’s conseut to their
engagement was all that was necessary
to make them happy. He said he
would write to him. He said he wonld
call him up by telephone next day.
There were many reasons why Mr.
Dinsmore ought not to be bothered
that night. Perhaps he was smoking
in his den. Perhaps he had gone to
bed. Perhaps he was not at home.
Ida would listen to none of these
excuses. Papa was in the house and
he had not gone to bed, and he was
not so absorbed that he could not be
seen, and he must be askede that very
night. If Mr. Sanderson would not
ask him, Miss Dinsmore herself would
broach the subject,and Mr. Sanderson
let her have her own way.
The two went to Mr. Dinsmore’s den
and knocked at the door.
““Come in,”’said a voice oun the other
side.
Miss Dinsmore opened the door
with one hand and led Mr. Sanderson
with the other.
Papa Dinsmore looked surprised,
and raised his eyebrows iuterroga
tively, and his daughter said:
“Papa.”
““Well, danghter?”’
““Charlie and I are a notification
committee?”’
““What sort of a notitication com
mittee.”
““We have come to notify yon that
you have been nominated to the pron:
position of father-in-law. There!
that's all. You needu’t make a spe-ch
in reply. Sit down, pip», and go oa
with your reading and smoXking.”
The girl then eclosed papa’s door,
and the notification committce re
turned to the parlor. —H :rper’s Bazar,
The Kentuckian Region,
In a defense of the Kentueky moun
tain people against attacks upon them,
J. B. Marcum, as the Winchester San
points out, calls attention to a charae
istic of the mountain country that is
marvelous. There are absolutely no
thieves. In traveling over ihat seec
tion you will find no locks ou the
doors. A gentleman in Hindman has
his meathouse on the main street of
the town and never has had a lock
upon the door. Violations of the
election and whisky laws are the chief
offenses.
Another to Hear From.
Wife—(examining the bili)—Do
you remember, my dear, how many
trout you caught last Suturday?
Husband—There werc just twelve;
all beauties Why?
Wife—The fishmonger has made a
mistake, he ouly charges for half a
dozen,
FOR FARNM AND GARDEN,
FEEDING FOR PROFIT.
It is difficult for the poor farmer to
comprehend the value of high feed
ing. But the sucecessful farmer who
has an abundance of corn, oats, bar
ley, wheat and rye grinds his grains
and feeds liberally. In the spring his
cattle come out smooth and sleek and
are songht for by the butcher. The
cows sre in condition to return large
quantities of milk of better quality
than that from poorly fed animals
The manure is also of much greater
value, and this will not only increase
the grain crops, but also the grass on
pastures and meadows. This enables
the farmer to keep more stock. The
profit from high feeding is therefore
four-fold, and if judiciously practiced
will certainly pay. —American Agri
culturist.
DEHORN THE COWS,
Horns on cattle at this day and age
are not needed and should be cou
sidered a useless apendage and there
fore to be gotrid of as soon as possible,
either by breeding them off or by ar
tificial removal. I use a chemiecal to
prevent their growth on any calves
and a cow that had become unruly
was dchorned, sinee which time she
has been quiet and well-behaved, and
hereafter if at any time I happen to
have a cow with horus, that does not
let the fences alone or is given to
hooking the other stock, she will most
sureiv be dehorned.
The cow alluded to above is giving
a better mess of milk than previously
and I believe it is partly owing to her
more quiet disposition. In many re
spects I believe the removal of horns
to Le an advantage and I do not want
any more of them on my cattle.—
Farm, Field and Fireside.
THE THINNING OF FRUIT.
The time to thin is, in most cases,
after the fruit is sufficiently advanced
to be past danger from frosts, other
wis< a late frost might carry the thin
ning process too far. The thinning
should in all cases be done before the
seeds begin to barden. The growing
practice of pruning away a large por
tion of the new growth of peaches,
prunes, and apricots obviates the ne-
cessity or greatly reduces the labor of
band thinning. When thinning by
hand, care should be taken to leave
the fruit as evenly distributed as pos
sible over the tree, in order that the
good effects of thinning may be ob
tained. To what extent shall we thin?
It will depend upon the condition of
each individual tree and its ability to
properly mature a large or a
small erop. As a general thing the
beginner will remove far too few
fruite, It is impossible to say what
proportion of fruit should be removed,
as the thinning wiil be much greater
some years than others. It is safe to
say that the fruits should never erowd
each other; this would require the re
moval of one-half of the fruits in some
cases, while in others four-fifths would
need to be removed in order to suffi
ciently reduce the nnmber.
The effect, of course, is {o increase
the size of the fruit that remains, and
to give room for development in per
fect shape. The actual weight of the
product may be reduced somewhat,
but this will be more than counterbal
anced by the extra pric: received for
the finer fruit. The greatest benefit
of thinning is observed during the
years when fruit is plentiful; the man
who has fine fruit has no difficulty in
disposing of his fruits at the highest
market price, while the careless grower
who bas neglected to thin finds his
fruit a drug on the market., The ef
fect of thinning on the tree is fre
quently of even more importance
than on the fruit itself. The grestest
drain on the tree comes from the pro
duction of the seeds; if from one-half
to four-fifths of the fruit is removed,
there is just that proportion of the
seed which do not have to be ripened.
Hence the tree might produce the
same weight of frunit after thinning
and vet be greatly bonefitteq by the
operation,—Utah Experimeht Station.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The suckling colt enjoys a drink of
cool water.
Do not forget the water supply dur
ing the warm days,
It is not quantity alone that makes
a cow a valuable miiker. Qaality has
much to do with it.
At the present and prospective
price of grain no stock should be
stinted in its allowance.
Clean pastures, clean water, clean
pails, clean everything, are essentials
iu good butter making just now.
Feed bas rmuch to do with the flavor
and quality of butter, no matter what
the breed that furnisbes the milk,
Keep a stock serapbook and paste
into it items that will be useful for
you to remember. It may save you
many dollars,
Some cows can get more fats and
color ont of food than others, and
this profitable eqnality goes not by
favor, but by breeding, heredity and
good care.
The value of a cow for diary work
is determined by her ability to pro
duce the largest quantity and the
highest prodact of qnality at the low
est cost for food.
The little porkers that are ruuning
with the sow on good pasture will
make all the more use of the grass
they eat, if given what shorts slop
they want night and morning.
One advauntage of salting batter
while in the granular state is that the
salt will reach every particle of butter
with less working and destroying the
grain than when the salting is done
when the butter has been worked to a
flat mass,
NEW WONDERS.
MARVELS DESIGNED FOR THE
PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900.
Huge Surveying Tower—A Great
Globe—-An Enormous Hole in
the Ground—Largest Tele
scope in the World.
OVELTY is the note of the
times and Paris strikes the
note. It would be hard in
= deed to provide posterity
with a better illustration from which
to gauge the taste of the world’s pub
lic during the declining days of our
century than the scientific and engine
ering eccentricities that will mark
this exposition. We of to-day are
lovers of wonders. We will find
£enough in Paris four years hence to
tickle us to the end of our days.
Wonder number one will provide
EXCITING RIDE IN MID-AIR
an aerial journey more than 900 feet
above the earth! The scheme is to
swing a midair suspension railway
from the top of the Eiffel Tower to
the summit of the distant Trocadero,
from which will be hung by rollers
chairs making the journey back and
forth.
Thick of it! The Eiffel Tower is
985 feet high. It will give you some
notion of what that means to recall
the copper eap on the top of our
Washingion Monument is only 535
{cet {from the ground.
Imagine such a trip! Somoe folks
fonnd the journey rouund the Ferris
Wheel at our World’s Fair a nervous
ordeal. Compared with this aerial
cable line, the Ferris Wheel i 3 posi
tively ridiculous as a hair statter.
1f shooting through the clouds in a
cane bottomed chair is not sensational
enough to stir the blood of our modern
novelty lover, let him enter the sur
veying tower, which will be built close
by. There is nothing particularly
startling about the snggestion of a
surveying tower, you say. Just wait
tilll you hear all.
You will enter a leaning cylindrical
tower about fifty feet high and made
of tempered steel. 1t locks like aoth
ing more impousing than a metallic
Tower of Pisa. You will find a cireu
lar seat inside, capable of holding
about twenty persons. You wiil sit
down and probably grasp the railing
pretty tight, meantime holding your
breath.
When the seats are all filled you will
suddenly shoot up into the air for a
distance of two hundred feet!
You will thén discover that your
tower 1s made of concentric steel tubes
that telescope into each other, and
that you are at the apex of the inner
most-—and now uppermost eection.
But the big tower will not stand
straight up. It will bend over, rain
bow fashion, in a long are, with youn
dangling at the end of it, for all the
world like a fish at the end of a sway
ing rod. Then it will revolve slowly
from its base, swinging vou in a wide
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PROPOSED SURVEYING TOWER FOR THE PARIS EXPOSITION, 1500.
circle over a large section of the ex
position grounds, and finally laad you
on a stationary tower, down which you
drop by an elevator to the ground.
The scheme of this tower was chosen
as the most startling of five hundred
remarkable suggestions. One of the
rejected schemee, by the way, was to
build a temple of literature out of
bricks composed of the compressed
pulp of rejected manuscripts. The
idea appealed strongly to the imagina
tions of the managers, but the sensa
tional features of the telescopic tower
prevailed.
The third wonder is the great globe,
120 feet in diameter, that will exhibit
the entire geography of the world in
the minutest detail. The exast means
by which the visitor is to be brought
in front of any particular spot on its
surface he wishes to investigate is not
yet finally decided. The latest plan
is to encircle 1t with a railroad, apon
which will run a regular train of cars.
It is calculated that this train will en
able you to outdo Phineas Fogg’s mar
vellous feat with a very large margin
to spare. You can go round the
werld in sixty seconds!
Marvel No. 4 is an inverted Eiffel
Tower. In other words, it is an enor
mously deep hole in the ground. This
will lie on the opposite side of the
grounds and its bottom will be reached
by a eeries of elevators.
The depth that it is proposed to sink
this shaft is 1000 feet. It will be
lighted from top to bottom, and the
construction of the crust upon which
the city of Paris stands will be ex
hibited and described in detail.
One will pass through all ranges of
temperature in descending this deep
pit. It is promised that every variety
of climate, from torrid to Arctie, will
be encountered, though just exactly
bow this happens is not yet fully de
scribed by the management. Frequent
stopping places are to be provided so
that you can linger in any temperature
that fancy dictates,and at these points
‘attractions consistent with the tem
perature are to be provided. The
lover of geology can here get the most
exact data pertaining to his eciene
=z
T
tific hobby illustrated in the most
effective possible manner.
The construction of this big hole
will be one of the greatest feats, from
a scientific point of view, of the expo
sition. The most distinguished mining
engineers in the world have been en
gaged, and the problem of ventilation
is likely to cause no end of trouble.
1t is not as an engineering feat,how
| ever, that the shaft will appeal to the
biggest public. Taken in the coneotion
with tbe Eiffel Tower, the wonder lov
ing will be enabled to travel two
thonsands vertical feet within the
period of and hour without climbing
one step.
But the fifth and greatest wonder of
the exposition is to be a telescope.
Need it to be added that it will be
the largest telescope in the world?
The object lens of the Paris Exposi
tion telescope will be four feet, three
inches in diameter. Fifty-one inches!
Think of that! The largest telescope
now ia existence is the Lick, whose
object glass has a diameter of thirty
six inches. The second largest is at
Pulkowa, Russia, with a glass of thirty
inches. The third is at the University
of Virginia, with a glass of twenty-six
inches. Harvard has the fourth largest,
with & twenty-four inch glass and the
fifth in size in the world belongs to
Princeton College. At the present
time there is making in Cambridge,
Mass., a glass which has been heralded
around the world. It is for the great
Yerkes telescope, and its diameter will
be forty inches.
Thus will the Paris Exposition tele
scope eclipse by eleven inches the dia
meter of the greatest telescopic object
glass of the world!
It will, so it is claimed, bring the
moon within one mile of us!
The telescope is to be 180 feet long,
and is to be rigged so that 600 persons
can simultaneously view tho heavens
with it. The image is to be received
on a level mirror seventy-five inches
ir diameter, and from that reflected
upon a screen.
The revelations of the starry mys
teries that this gigantio telescope is
expected to make will thus be given
not to a solitary astronomer, to be by
him sent forth to the world in his own
good time and to the benefit of his
fame alone, but directly to the public,
and any of us may be fortunate enough
to be personally present at stellar dis
coveries of vast importance.
These are the five great wonders ot
the Paris Exposition.
But it is four years off yet, and who
knows what those four years may pro-
duce? The Herald will doubtless yet
tell its readers of other marvels
equaliy great or mayhap greater than
these with which the Capital of Nov
elty will signalize the close of the
greatest century of the world’s his
tory. Paris wmay yet give us seven
wonders.—New York Herald.
Graveyard Made Famons by Dickens,
“Tom All Alone’s,”the dismal grave
yard in Rassell court, Drury lane, im
mortalized by Dickens in the Poor Joe
episode of Bleak House, is now almost
an “open space,” owing to the exten
sive demolitions in the neighborhood.
The old, dismal passage and steps have
gone and the yard is paved and laid
out as a poor children’s gymnasium,
but the sullen-looking gate with the
rust-eaten bars still remains.
The Union Steamship Company’s
Royal Mail steamer Moor arrived at
Southampton recently from Cape
Town, South Africa, bringing goid of
the value of $1,490,000, the largest
shipment of the precious metal ever
made in a vessel from Africa.
CURIOUS WEDDING RING.
Mrs. Martin Luther’s wedding ring
was & most curious and elaborate af
fair, says a writer in the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Some Cincinnati ladies,
who recently saw it in their summer
travels, state that the wonderiul little
ring contains representations of all the
articles used at the crucifixion. The
ladder, the ecross, rope, nails, the
hammer, spear and even the thorns
are shown on its surface.
MOURNING BECOMING TO HER.
Mrs. John W, Mackay, who lost her
son recently in Paris and who is still
in deep mourning, has become a great
church goer. Her gowns, we are
informed by the society papers, are
dreams. - One woman says that they
are the envy oi the whole congrega
tion, imcluding the men. All the
women want an excuse to go into
mourning so that they can wear black
and outshine Mrs. Mackayv. They can
not doit. “*Mrs. Mackayis the luckiest
woman in the world,” said a grass
widow, just over from Paris. “‘Just at
a time when colors were beginning to
grow tiresome and none of us knew
what on earth to do for a change, she
gets a chance to go in mourning. And
black is so becoming to her!”
SINS OF THE TOILET.
Fraulein Payer, a Swiss, who has
recently obtained her degree of doctor
of medicine, is lecturing to her fellow
countrywomen on the unsanitary
enormities of modern female fashion.
Recently, when the Society of Swiss
Schoolmisiresses was Lholding its year
ly session in Asrau, Dr. Payer was
invited to address them. She took
for her subject *‘The Sins of the Toi
let,” and delivered a militant oration
against the wearing of corgets, against
gloves, and against long skirts. Her
reasoning was so effective that at the
end of her lecture no fewer than 100
women came forward and subseribed
their name to a pledge to renounce
the corset, to wear gloves oniy upon
‘‘ceremonial cccasions,” and to have
their dresses made a foot short of the
ground !”"—New York Journal,
RED HAIR FASHIONABLE,
Have you observed how fashionable
red bair 1e getting to be? 1 have, and
yet it seems only yesterday since every
woman stroveto be golden-locked, and
trailed her shimmering tresses under
neath voluminous lengths of black
tulle veil. The American type is said
to be brown hair and gray eyes, but
just nowit looks like mahogany tresses
and any shade of eyes that happens to
come along. Woe, indeed, if fashion
comes to decree a particular color in
optics, for lovely woman will surely
strive to follow. Asit is, I don’t much
believe in the durability of red hair as
a vogue. There 1s quite too much of
red in the hats and gowns of the sea
gon, and not quite enough black, al
though—to look at the other side of
the shield —green is one of the fore
most shades for almost every wear, and
I never yet knew a red haired woman
who did not cling to green as to her
salvation, though she never as much as
looked at a white horse. Well, it is
hard to prophesy, but—
Let Lututia herself do what she may
The ct(; wgll mew aad the dog will have his
ay ] £ o
—Chicago Times-Herald.
ENITTING REVIVED.
The latest fad of the society girl is
to knit. This pastime of our grand
mothers’ day has become the rage.
Every fashionable young woman at
present has a bag in which she carries
knitting needles, silk and worsted.
Stockings are what she devotes most
attention to. The swell young man
has bicycle stockings knitted for him
by his fair admirers now. He no long
er has to buy them. All he does is to
prck out the color yarn he wants, and
one of his girl friends converts it into
stockings,
It used to be considered hard to
think of 2 present for a young woman
to give a man of her acquaintance.
This is no longer the case. All she Lhas
to do is to knit him something. And
anything made by her dainty fingers
is supposed to enbance its value in his
eyes. She can knit him an umbrella
cover, a bag or a pair of stockings=.
The bag must be a traveling bag with
handles attached to it. These are made
of silk, of course. Last year vou could
not have persuaded a man to carry an
affair of this sort, but now it is just
““the thing.”
This season all of the girls belonging
to the ‘“400” at Newport went around
with these bags on their arms, and
knitted themselves end their maie ad
mirers golf, bicycle and teunis stock
ings, as well as traveling bags and um
brella covers.—New York Joarnal.
HANDLES PRESSES.
Women have taken all kinds of odd
positions, but there is only omne girl
foreman of a pressroom in a printing
office in the United States, to far as
known. She is Miss Rena Challender,
twenty years old. The ptiniing house
in which she holds the autoctatic office
of director of the movements of big
steam presses and other machinery is
at Manistee, Mich.
She learued to set type wken she
was sixteen, and soon made her way to
the front as a good printer. She took
particular interest in machinery, and
before long rshe could do anything
with a press that any one could do.
She can take a press apart and put it
together again as well as any man that
ever entered a printer’'s place. She
does the heavy work, too—knack
supplying the place of strength, as it
does evervwhere. §
Besides taking care of the mechani
cal part of the newspaper, she has been
the editor and has bad charge of the
type-setting room. She is a 8 member
of the Woman’s DPress Club, of Michi
gan, as well as of the Typographical
Union. She 1s not at all of the new
woman type, as it is generally under
stood, but really is an advanced woman
in that she strives to do her part in
the world and to farther the progress
of education and general information,
as well as to prove that her sex is the
equal of the so-called stronger part of
bumanity.—New York Press,
Two minutes is the longest time
that Queen Victoria can stand on her
feet.
The Queen of Portugal has taken
Roentgen photographs of the waists of
her court ladies to demonstrate the
evils of tight lacing.
It seems that Miss Ellen Terry is
threatened with serious eve trouble.
KOy
and has been forbidden to read, write
or to worry about anything.
The new *““Veuus waist,” whose pe
culiarity is that it is three or four in
ches nearer the normal size than the
fashion plate variety, gives a decided
advantage to the tall fellow with the
long arm.
Many women riders of the bicyele
wear shoes that are not adapted to rid
ing. When women ride wearing low
cut, paper soled shoes they are not get
ting the enjoyment out of cycling that
should be theirs.
Mrs. C. F. Fishback, wife of tha
owner of the Seattle (Wash.) Times, is
said to be the first white woman who
has visited Cariboo, the wild mining
region at the head of the Frazer
River in British Columbia.
The famouy yellow jacket of ILi
Hung Chang has been taken up by thy
ultrafashionable ladies of Paris. It
will be interesting to see how that un
sigh'ly specimen of satorial art will
look when worn by the fair sex.
The first woman to receive a medi
cal diploma in Europe or this country
is Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, wh) isnow
seventy-five, and has just published
her biography. She was born in Eag
land, but took her degree in this coun
try.
l “‘Camilla Selden,” the woman who
nursed Heine, the poet, during the
last months of his final illness, has
just died. The poet, who gave her the
name of ‘““Mouche,” addressed to her
his last poem, and the letters he wrote
to her are most pathetie.
There are five women on the Brook
lyn (N. X.) Board of Education. Of
the three who had lelt the city for the
summer, one traveled from New Hamp
shire, anotker from the vicinity of
Boston and the third' 150 miles to at
tend the July meeting of the Board.
Mrs. Minerva Nichols, of Philadel
phia, has made an enviable reputation
a: an architeet. She has a preference
for domestic architecture, but she
nevertheless designed the new Century
Clubs for Philadeiphia and Wilming
ton, both of which have been greatly
admired.
More than 250 young ladies have
availed themselves of the privileges of
the Lafayette Home, founded in Paris
by Dr. T. W. Evans, of Philadelphis,
for the benefit of his young country
women who come to Paris as students.
It is noticeable that a great majority
of these students have remained in the
bhome from ths beginning to end of
their study course.
The German Empress has azain
taken to riding, and seems to have
quite recovered her nerve. She was
mounted at the review of the Guard
Regiments, which took place in the
neighborhood of Potsdam, recently,
She wore the white cuirassier uniform,
in which she always appears on such
occasions, and with it a large white
telt hat with loug ostrich feathers.
FASHION NOTES.
Stulff belts for the winter are wide,
folded or plain, in girdle shape. o
To write with a very fine p—en rather
than a stub is now considered correct.
It is to‘)e a season of jeweled efi'eéifi
and apliqued designs, both in cloth
and braid.
Some flufiiness, there must be, of
silk or lage or ribbon, at the back of
all fashionable dresses.
Sleeves of gowns, fcr demi-toilet,
areso ruffled and puffed you hardly
notice that they have decreased in size,
Velvet ribbons, wherever possible,
this season will replace those of silk
or satin. We shall have them in ro
seftes, bands, bows, belts, even ruffles.
A silk waist that has begun to show
the ravages of time may have its days
lengthened by covering it smoothly
with open grass linen embroidery, and
putting in puffed sleeves of the same
goods.
An entirely new fad is being cher
ished by fashionable dsessmakers—
that of cutting evening bodices square
in front and high in back, wi¥h a collar
a la Staart, and of baving the sleeves
come down well over the wrists.
Basket work cushions are amoug
the novelties. Strips of open work
ribbon in pronounced colors are laid
over a square of buckram, the strips
being two inches apart. Cross pieces
are then woven in and ont. When
brilliant colors are used the effect is
rather oriental.
The sleeveless jacket is the novelty
of the hour. It is to be worn before
the fall coat becomes a mnecessity.
The jacket fastens with a mother-of
pearl buckle studded with mock
emeralds. Whether it is made of taffeta
withfrillsofaccordion plaitingorrough
cloth or heavy lace, it is chic enough
to satisfy even the heart of a French
woman. As yet there are but a few of
these sleeveless ~oats in town.
The popular finish given to mutton
leg and other sleeves close to the arm
from the elbow down is very pretty,
and has the advantage also of making
the hand look smaller. The sleeve 18
so cut that at the edge of the wrist it
expands like the calyx of a flower.
This expanded part is finished in
many waye. It is usually of velvet
and is lined with a pretty contrasting
color iu silk filled in with lace, cat in
tabs or points, braided, or piped with
siik or satin.
The Reward of Yirtue.
The following story is related of a
gentleman who invited a namber of
Sunday school children to a treat in
bis beautiful grounds. Not the least
appreciated among the many good
things were the excellent strawberries
and cream, of which there was a plen
tiful supply.
Seeing how the children enjoyed
these, the good man, wishing to im
prove the occasion, addressed them:
““Well, boys,” he said, ‘I hope yon
kave thoroughly enjoyed your straw
berries and cream?”
*Yes, sir,” was the reply, in lusty
chorus.
_ “‘But suppose,” he continued, “‘that
instead of having been invited here
you had stolen over my garden wall
and helped yourselves when no one
was looking, you would not have en
joyed them hall as much, would
you?”
~ %No, sir,” replied the chorus.
“And why not?” queried their ben
efactor.
To this answer there was no imme
diate response, the boys being appar
ently shy of giving any reason. At
length, however, a little urchin, rath
er bolder than the rest, piped out:
¢ 'Cause we shouldn’t bhave had
no cream with them!”—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
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