The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 11, 1891, Page 6

es en FOREIGN GOSSIP. The MODERN LIBRARY. It is Wel Ordered and Contains Aids to stuty in All Hr nehes ot Learning. What the old proverd 5.ys of fire— rood sery * recor strnction of the neglected vations of Crete appears to have cided upon. ‘T large outer built to the east and t ul smailer works are being planned for Retimo and Candia. —'The London Metropolitan Gardens Association has offered £100 apiece to the twenty politan vestries and th be applied ie greatdefect of the ton that books the mastery over that tre immedi to books it was old-fash oned were all metre nt but a bad | QUEEN OF THE FLOWERS. | PRECIOUS MEMENTOES The Treasures of an Uld Lady Who Had Gu lived Her Friends The Chrysanthemem and Its ise in Popa- larity. seems, a fashion in The tul ea and somes to note the tris ng to La France, , fling rel cs and gifts that have no real Perle deg value, and others, who had no h otver rapidly pleasant memories assoc-ated with the ddess. a cies, wo to tne see their day and passion Baroness, Jacqu Jord n roses fol | n the affect ar consign sati i < has ga ned the | And so it comes about th rysan- lumber close As distinet boards to be expended in plant- molern mode of | then ens ey Gi poate gro 3 of t in suit thorough: | teach ne z ca aged a tei a =i 4 EES or of istrict. ¢ “ : x : 5 ; \ (listriet, om condition (hat | taken not to run nia tie opposite ex- | eurrounded by a court whose pumbers | friends who baw Soa : retae, and d sregard books aitogether. | and loya equaled on-y vy that of = the trees when planted, replacing sueh | yoy much aid a wellemanazed coliec- | the rose : | . - ve to the | santhemu rof the French Mi War that no French Idi restaurants, ister 0 rshould fre- or hotels po nted an arte kept by forcigners has been so gene He says ly viola eticers and pr ili > that he lus felt obliged to repeat it, | they now occur wlded threat t N offenders lower, tu from now on be punished eof ewoin | vandieres may occasionally be | Vem. experi: experence in any of edd rel at the bead of some { the annum te vt sc ence, or of Fre reyiments of the line on rev teach ng soon ge tseif printed in a (as of yore in their gay book. ‘Thus printed, it is in no sense a nd ear a small parcel eure uke 4 individua se of eyes, the ynal colors slung ands and bra n, but gives all these in- shoulders. The race, how-| format on, guidance suggestion, of ever, is fast dying out. although women pean " alculny ‘ * Whe in till assist as eantinicres in regimental | ‘be Study of arch tecture. geology or refreshment departinents. eng neer ng, the .ibrary is of increas- The } } € tetantey om ing worth as an aid to work and prac- —The French corps of infantry off-| ica there are fields of research where : for Iso will number 12.275 men. | ie 16 Sash é aio Colonala. 100 “Ltentenant- | becomes th workshop itself. Ree shere are 100 Colonels, 19) Lies search in law, h story philosophy, Colonels, 1.047 Majors, 4.160 Captains, economics 1t re generiilycan only re books are and r ghtly ordered.” (21 Second e foreigners and +: are ¢ 14 among the Lieu- bl Lieutenants. itenunts. Th among the Captains. be pursued wt together gathered 4 : f The phrase ‘rightiy ordered” is an tenants, and 27 among the Second T1G0-| sttusion. to the immense increase of tenants. The Second Lieutenants | yatue that librar ans are now g ving to men whe have distinguished them} ¢.6 collectons in the re « through selves in regiments abroad, and have] improved oranization Formerly the been re rded. after having enjoyed |) prarian deemed bs ty done if he their rank two years, by being promot-|sathfully guarded the books in bis ed to a corresponding rank in the re-|eare from loss or injury, and the less serves. ‘The French army has the| they were used the less apprehensions st corps of infantry officers of all} he had for their safety. ‘The lilrarian mies in the world. that is now com ng to the front isa —A quaint custom, dating back to] beng of adifferent k nd. He is tra ned xon times, known as payment] for bis pro’ession » has a much wrath silver.” was fat Kniphtlow Hill. sn Rugby ane Covent It consists of tribute payable by cer- tain pa Warwickshire to the his chiefest Duke of The silver has to]care. ‘To that end he must know how be deposited at d tk in a hollow|to order them and ind:eate their con- stone by representatives of the parish tents so that the whoe capital en- the penalty for default being forfeit-| trusted to him shail be constantly ure of a white bull with a red nose and] available for any inquirer’s purpose. ears. The representatives afterwards| He must be able to give seekers gu d- dined together at the Duke's expense.— | ance, have the tact and sympathy to Science. st mulate research, the kindly enthus - asm which promotes study by invit.ng it to help'ui stepp ng stones.” A library under such management rises to the plane of efficiency occupied broader con eption of ti ongs to him. “The ne Mr. Iles, “tuat he stall so vital ze bs library that to make his books tractive and useful snail be bh recently ob- tumulus be- England. w idea is,” says PARIS FLOWER VENDERS. The Different 1 ; . : by the laboratory. A modern labora- They are an j resting set, these] tory designed for students in one of the flower venders of Paris. There are as} sciences, with its convenient desks, many kinds of them as there are differ- ent kinds. of people in the gay metropo- lis of the jolly world. let us begin with te drawers and lockers, its rows of bot- tles containing re-agents, its apparatus especially devised for the work to be done, its arrangements for water, gas and steam, its compartments set off to secure spec'al condit.ons of light, air and temperature, and its collections systematically arranged for the com- parison of specimens, 1s a most satis- factory place to work in. To say thut the modern library is approaching this character is the h ghest praise that we can give it.—Popular Science Monthly. HISTORIC TAORM NA. most serious ‘of horticulture, and carries on her busi- ness more for the love of it than because she needs to. Still she knows the value of money and gives nothing away. Here is the type of another clas Her home is the boulevard, her custom- ers the gilded youth of every age; her stock in sight consists of buttonhole bouquets. She is neither young nor old, neither pretty nor ugly. but she is] On the Sicitian +escoast at the Foot of “chie™ und clever. Mount Etna. She knows her customers’ little se- On the eastern seacoast of Sicily, half way between Messina and Catania, and near the base of Mount Etna, the most famous of vo'canoes known to Greek classic poets, underneath which they imagined the rebellious Titans lying in a bed of fire, in the agony of an eternal business, but hardly ever dies poor. struggle against the rule of Zeus or The home of the queen of florists is in Jove, is the small town of _Taormina, the grand boulevard bazaars. She is easily accessible by pus railway that the artist who directs the execution of /™¥8 On southward to Syracuse. Few the wonderful floral pieces and her taste | Places have more interest, for the lover is trusted implicitly by her customers. of classical ant quities or of romantic, There is nothing cheap, nothing historical assoc:ations, in later ages, plebeian about her. She lives in a] than this part of the S'cilian shores, world consisting entirely of titled or colonized by the Greeks at the height moneyed aristocracy, and her manners of their glorious civ:lization, afterward no less than her conversation would | S¥bdued by the Carthaginians and the grace the finest salon. She may not Romans, ravaged by the Saracens in own a husband. but she can outshine | t@ middle ages, conquered by the Nor- many a prima donna with her dia-|™928 and reclaimed to Christendom, monds and other treasures, and is fre-| 294 subsequently ruled by the French, quently seen as a rich heiress at the Spaniards and Neapolitans. watering places. Of Tauromenium, which was founded Her counterpart in the other half of |i# the year 403 B.C. by Greek emi- the world is more picturesque than at- | 2789ts aeouy Naxos: and was captured by tractive. She deals in flowers in spring D onysius of Syracuse seven years after- and sells tish at other seasons. She is| “Td, there are few remans except robust, hale and hearty, not always those of the noble theater, which is be- crets and executes orders for cut-flow- ers or bouquets to be sent to the ladies of the world, with the most minute at- tention to the eiver’s expectations, without ever asking a question of the customer. She never grows gray in the very clean, but always good-natured eS ved, though et € reel form, to have when selling flowers from her hand- | Ort CONS ELOd IU AOUET. tes, (AS £6 vart Jsschiefly bu lt of brick It is a vast cart. | semic ar strue feet in di- rs of mar- et standing, She does not shine as a conversation- alist,, but has a knack of letting her wares speak for themselves in’ their a ti Ps noe and with interven: as ingement. | Mee meter, ble, some of Sweet flower herself, the flower girl se ee = of th nement courts! aust Nepean lively. vminded and lig | Sapapaeci eats pees she of models nm court to court, and down-stairs, listeni woe and of scandal, rets she has heard or invented. Does she make a living? Yes, for a time. Kut she does not get rich asa florist, and her fate is generally record- ed upon the saddest leaves of the book of life. You see that ragged old hag picking over the garbage? Ten to one she was once just such a sweet flower asthe guy girl you thought more fra- grant than the tlow Always heggard and careworn, clad poorly and without taste, surrounded by a lotof dirty, ragged children, all her own, she sits in her little booth near the ent to the cemetery. The flowers she sells are not likely to | fade ve seon, nor does she seem, in other respe: to have any thing in common with the rest of the Paris sis- terhood of dower sellers. But she, ng gossip } towers, wide arches ured decoration trees in the plazza. pines on the hills groves, a profusi sea views and a ma w th its crown of and palm- ypresses, o ives and yards a d orange ts, lovely view of Ema, | ind snow. the es—St Loui Globe-Demc rs she sells. —The € isa eopa rdt does ost marve . bus does she ned the well- day being ext rings are « ut th s { like all the others, plays an important 6 ss : : H a o ae : | they 1 ya evil words part in the life of gay Paris. and behind | against he a; * ace ee ge her apparently harmless trade lurks but | Sun. too often the warst of all occupations the traffic in haman lives. How many poisonous asps are not —Willing to Acctunmodate — Book ; Agent—“I have w fine work here, sir; 7 , it you can give me tme——” Basy hidden beneath the flowers which are | Merchant—“Ceriainly; + Tight out in the daily =e and bought in gay Paris !— j other office. Jobn, give this gentieman Chicago News. {the thme “—Detrei: Free Presa S | atlow by at nd sword elsewber gi ee Tr pc eame wh she 4 :« y he The late ce ebr ha V > . i England brought ou proved tobe ag facts. }cover, and int A variety of the and ends of sad to grow wild t | value, | their o ly. where centur ved its name at the who j When visitors came called it St Ot > It was | the contents of the jar probably known in Holland n the sev- and. ane ng them ca enteenth century, but P ained reasons seems tohave been or dropped come ultivat on, for when 100 years later, the was matron ce 1 ha‘led as a nox single rose, yth her bent and wrinkled ex- | d lost y is sou thin’ I've had as | I would not tak » flowering va years, a a good deal for it brother Ben give it to me the di he went to sea, an’ never ¢: more, pore boy! He m China it From urp le —the loped os The buff and vy French soon was took it and im their | Ben was. favorabe climate we ible to zipen { “This little apo” char seeds, at on enla the tield of low an’ silk is mor operations, while the flo thoroughly por that Jexhibitions we est. The next era er became so mother’s Ithink asght of it; years old. It's a piece o' my weddin’ dress, an” | an’ here’s a piece of the b laine I was married ins A-n't that little « yloex blossom in it sistory of the chrysanthemum the intro- | purty? John, my husband, you know, duct on by the great Eng botanist, | he always | 1 yeks. an’ he Joved to Robert Fortune, of new varieties from | see me wear this dress. [ain't but this Japan; perhaps the most nortant | little ser; ap left. velopment of the though | all broke off. I've b Ys an’ | frowned upon at f those of severe | years, an’ 'd kind o like it put in my acedemic noti« teons! perfect on of shrysan- themunm survived this period, and by its extreme and stic character won its way rap ly to the first place, while in the hands intell gent cross- breeders it bee: genitor of novel and splendily of before. From this point its progress has been one of unbroken t John coffin, My littl for his pa come ", named hape, the new nnin? n one day on the river bank, an’ he y hand. you ivil growed from his play had thisshell in his little. dir an’ he says: “Mammy Ive br somethin’ purt do to *membe up an’ gone’; an’ very next da} cold an’ wt river whe grace dear me, the ig him in all te an’ dr pp n’ from the »had been for hours an’ triumpt Its possi- b 5, too, seem as inexhaustible as | hours an’ me th nkin’ be was at his ever, though English, French and Amer- | play. An’ I tuk the little sbell out’n iean florists have sent outa constant | my pocket an’ put it away but I didn’t stream of new and magnificent varieties. | need it nor nothin’ else to ’'member him Moreover, there came in the face of all | b these successes, and from far Japan again, one more wonder, greater than all its predect ssors bere, the marvelous Mrs. Hardy, named for the lady to whom the cutting was sent, with several others searcely less admirable, by the lamented Mr. Neesima Few flowers have shown so pliant a mature in the hands of man; of what new forms of beauty it may still be ca- ceal the Animal's Claws, pable, even to hazard a guess would be “Tt brings bad luck to a house or a rash. Meanwhile the ex'sting varieties, | game.” sa:d a gent'eman who occasion- with their ravishing wealth of color | Sly tackles the tiger, ‘to let it get out and their infinite grace and variations | that either have driven a man to su- of form, compel the homage of all be- | cide. In Chicago not long ago a young bolders.— Boston Transcript b ood who had spent his own pile and ate as much of his father’s as he could get African Amoure by forgery playing a dead-sure system A plot for a new novel, with a gloss of novelty. illustrating the old-fangled | few brains he had in a cheap lodg-ng- ways of an ancient race seen by Stanley | house. The proprietors of the place in Africa: He was a young Yambuya | where this unfortunate youth backed chief, stalwart, proud and black; she was | himself against chance and a ‘brace’ a Yambuya maiden. handsome, grace- | game and lost, spent several thousand ful and swarthy. He was brave in the | dollars keeping the facts from the cor- field, bold in the hunt and merry at the | oner, or rather, from the public. The feast; she was true-hearted and gentle | papers got a romantic story of a broken and could caro! like a bird. He wooed | heart and the faro playing never gota her. but she was coy: he almost won | line her, but she shrank from his embraces. He gave ber flowers for her hair. charins | of dealing with suicides in that famous for her fingers and handkerchiefs for | gambling hell A well-dressed, hand- her wardrobe; she required him to fetch | some man lost at play one night, and re- her the skin of a tiger the jaw of a ser- | marked that he was ruined. He walked pent and the head of her rval The | jnto the last of the series of gaming- next day she got them ail and ere the | rooms and shot a pistol-ball into his set of the sun they were wedded. They | brain. As quick as a flash an attend- lived in happ.ness ever afterward, he | ant threw open a window that reached proud of his prze, she vain of ber | to the ground. and laid him on the grass babies —-Brooklyn Eagle. without A roll of bills was shoved into his waistcoat pocket, and next day the officials declared that the man had com- taitted suic de in the park, and that as he had plenty of money on his person the reason for his act was mysterious.” Pittsburgh Dispateh. EGGS “FOR | THE. TAKING. Where Sin Francisco Ge here were other Whings inthe jar, not worth five cents to any one else, but very precious to the lonely old soul, who smiled and eriéd softly ness. over some of them, over others. —N. VICTIMS OF THE TIGER. How the Keepers of Gambling Houses Cone “At Monte Carlo they have a neat way Pine Cone _ ires. Persons whovan burn an open fire in their homes in winter are advised that they will tind noth ng +o delightful by way of adding to its glowing charm asa handful of pine cones Ai] last summer women who knew how these bits would crackle and snap and send a pungent fragrance through all the rooms were & Large Portion of Her Supply gathering great bags of them, and now | ‘The Farallone islands are about thirty | gee ee veer Howes You are | miles from the mouth of San Francisco | jcon pecul.ar ch some: | bas, off the ¢ coast of California, and are | wher owing fire or spicy | the homes of innumerable sea fowls. | j atmosy = | When San Francisco first began to ble j Mindful of the a Boece ft : tantl com mene eee ne jSom out as ac zy her constant cry was j ce a, ree lers on the coast made want one | but s |hard to gratify. To su; Ss want } Beneath li ee as ae THE BEST POROUS PLASTERS IN THE WORLD, knows tht Daslasas as. bers = utaay tere RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY PAINS, LAME BACK, &c. vainly for years the Non jsand on the Faralione islands wastr ed, ail pains s 9 :atthe Von |224. prov ng su Dashaway |beenone of th ¥ |The birds of the “HE didn ball Jast r Blumers) I ever since | iB umers’ est coast industries. is are z | (care] exume you | ¢ siands are too p ent | know imer’s grandfather | 2! to count or even estimate, a may be | | was « erton (pur- |'Mferred from the fact that the egg gatherers often bring in 500 dozen eggs |per day. This, however, gives but a I would | partial idea of their immense numbers beet i great many of the nests being nac- he cessible and many others devastated by y_ |the rivalry of tho birds themselves. The egg bus ness of the ducted 1 3 zht to | lectors fiv Pepperton or now” uing the sul | ceive an inv ' dear pod slands is con- Tdon't » season is h. even at annual barv n one of Ls, gust, wh Takes matter, old fehowt? “She asked me e2gs why I was se silent and I told bertheah en an i Vhe ¢ st of t London Gas Company has succeeded making from the refuse of a gas retort a perfect emera he cost of making the gem, howev as many times greater than that for which a natural stone could be purchased at a jewelers. ¥ Yes, i get a busband seems the nowadays.” way to Dramatic | —‘“Why did Cesar thrice » decline the Agent—‘And do you think you possess ; Imperial crown?” demanded the Shake- , “‘I suppose it was be- | ” the necessary ialen Lady—‘“'To get ' sperian student married? Why, certainly!’—Demorest’s | cause it was offered to him three times,” j Monthly jTeplied the matter-of-fact men, . ¥. 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