Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1893, Page 13

THE EVENING SYA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. Gents’ Gloves) HOLIDAY HOME MANNERS, CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Some Timely Suggestions ‘for Holi- day Presents. NOVELTIES FOR THE YOUNG AND Their Effect Upon the Training of Children. From the New York Ledger. If people would only realize how very easy it is to teach children good manners when they were little, it seems to me they never would neglect to attend to it. The young- ster is allowed to go his own way, to violate every rule of courtesy, sometimes of de- cency, until his habits are to an extent formed. Then there is a great breaking-up of established notions, and the child is pun- Dec: H ished and nagged and worried for doing vane erations for the | mae watch inne heretofore been permitted Tree That Delights Children. to do without criticism. It becomes anger- ed, sullen, unsettled and irritable, and if it has a strong sense of justice—which, by the way, is more common in children than peo- LITTLE GIRLS. | ple, as a rule, give them credit for—it feels outraged and abused, and becomes unman- ageable and rebellious. The best school of manners for a child is the pazent’s example Written for The Evening Star. and home training. Thanksgiving has come and gone, the jin-| Company manners are, by all odds, the Sle of Santa Claus’ bells may be heard at| worst element that ever entered into @ our very doors, end the blessed questions, | ramily. Just why people should indulge “What shall I give her?" “What can 1) themselves in all sorts of careless, indiffer- give him?" are already waiting for solution. | ent and ill-pred habits when they are alone Children are the first consideration at) 4+ home, and put on @ veneer of courtesy, this holiday season and for their Christ-| amiapiity and polish when somebody mas trees there are fascinating decora- comes, is one of the many mysteries of this tons, quite pretty enough to serve as gifts! very mysterious thing that we call life. after they have filled their original pur-| How much easier it would be to maintain pose of ornamentation. For festoons there | tne steady unitorm deportment, to follow are pear-shaped glass balls of various col-/| out the same theories and hold to the same ors, and for glitter and sparkle there are | principles Sunday and week days, storm and fow, pink, blue glass swans, with | Shine, alone or in society. Veneers are a aint spits easy, - makeshift. They may have their uses, but spun silk wings, also, silver horseshoes. | are tor jess desirable than the solid material In dazziing srray are the bailet giris, With} aij through. One lasts for a little while, the geld and sliver gauge skirts and velvet|other weathers the storms of time, hard Waists, glass flowers, miniature — Posy rag get neni ged Bi thptiniees Tensor, onenienen: te the Sires of PINOT 5 iietie acaitact with the Worth: the’ other umbreilas, with white handles, high, pink) grows better with every passing year. The satin shoes, with black heels, and white] earliest training of a child should be in muffs. strict conformation with the most appzoved Mechanicai toys have reached a state of Feelistic success that must please the most | havior should be the inflexible rule of the household. exacting, fin de siecle youngster.| One of the prettiest sights in the world One capital specimen of these is called “Me-| was witnessed in a public clace the Gare Ginty’s Laduer;” it is a long strip of wood = a bes of = ree oe pages i r sister, painted with the alphavet, and has an am- te of his mot 7 a ol = . Bitlous Uttle figure which, if wound up,|Pened the door, held it with one han DOLLS FOR mounts the rungs of the hard ladder of learning. in animals, the most lovable pus- sies aud puppies move easily over the car- pet, frightfully aatural bears waddle along a, courteously raised his cap with the other, and waited for them to pass through. It put the blush on m than one mature cheek, and caused ny a mother with growing children to wonder why it was that her boys never did anything of that sort. marvelously well, and there ure peacocks| The simple reason was that in that piece and pigs—all wonderful triumphs in move-| hold courtesy was enforced from the cradle. ment. .\ charming soldier toy for boys is a] The boy never had been permitted to sup- military band under rigid military disci-| Pose that he could pass through a door and pline. The bandmaster, surrounded by the band and their instruments, waves his ba- ton in strict time while one or more tunes eo Dolls for Girls. For dear little girls are dear little dolls that present the contrast of fuily half a century to those our grandmothers loved when they were young. Instead of rag ba- bies with flat, long, solemn faces, dressed in print gowns and aprons, we see beauti- ful, beaming small creatures that heid by the hand walk exactly like a little child, the costumes prepared by the best tailors and milliners. There are coaching bers vith frilled capes lined with silk, whic! canes need ant be ashamed to claim, and long, loos: picturesque dresses and Dutch bornets of bright yellow or delicate hello- trope silk. Not only wardrobes, but hi of the most elaboraie description have been provided, each room and passage lighted by electric lights; closets, admirabiy tn- ished, containing hanging facilities for the dainty little gowns, and drawers filled with under linen, shoes and hats. For Grown-Up Friends. For our “grown-up” friends while there are numerous novelties to select from it is not so easy to make # choice. Never were work baskets made so attractive as at this holiday season. The many hued wicker or gold cane baskets, lined with rosy pink brocade or exquisite pale blue satin, are 80 tempting that one of them wins its way into our possession, to be bestowed, per- baps, upou some friend so little domesti- cated that sie regards our oifering as a sort of reprouof for the error of her ways and immeuateiy undertakes to sew a seam as an vubiging evidence of her reform. % ay tnd the toddy and punch bowl h imotner-of-pearl shelis set in perfectly irresistible, © one if we will send es warmed our hearts, and not tanee whese blue ribbon rep- In supplying pretty adjuncts of a writing table one can hardiy go wrong. This sea- on offers a new acquaintance in leather i reseleaf It is well worth knowing; a cream-colored uncrushable morocco, colored in a dark rose tint. It is used for blotters and there is a lighter-toned enamel- e@ rorciear im cne corner. It is used, also, for ctzarette, + was never more charming than lors are so beautiful; heliotrope crocodile, reseda-tinted leather mounted in riting pad covers are pretty, made or white linen, the ground to the white design being aed with blue crewes. Another broidered in white ground. Letter weights come in of a glove so naturally modeled ms really suede glove thrown Rock crystal is applied to the er knife sec in gold and d as a seal, and for f hurry, can take 8 are large sticks hich can form a * mind a Vienna th “a for tt can ve ha in the ¢ his. being lifted, shows a hat more touching token could one de For th tose early spelling lessons were negi i whe has the intelligence & mintature dictionary,s the ever made, set in a_ silver ify'ng glass outside, so p tne waich chain. * neeis a pencil. They with enameled birds; a red-breasted robin would Novellies tn In tea cloths the ne colored ieathe est are bound with and embroidered in detached e light blue and light * wre embroidered with These could not fail to fts. in a table bell ts called “bluevell” and is Just the thing for a It consists of eight od spray, ranged carefully in “al cuime of peautiful fax floss. a a gold-c onzed biue and a né, maxing a mu: axquisite s! framed hand glasses Fesent Hower, the glass in the center of th the leaf forming the handle. Even is are givritied into “coal istic design is a perfect tou of an egg plant in copper, cover liited by the stem of the plant anze. It is tipped into a bronze frame, the shovel, also of copper, partly conceal. ed in a iitue niche under the frame. Any housewile will be delighted with a bit of quaint a pair of greatgrand- mot! .e8—anybody’s greatgrand- ential—or a iittle square entique silver tea caddy, made when tea Was valuable and the price a grave con- n iz siderati the household expenses. E r above trifles and can furniture, the newest is - stained in the new fash- nd the chairs are rush bot- armingly attractive. town, to struggle through i shops, to feel bewildered vith conflicting claims and attractions, and ssibly a meager purse, is wearisome and ve ; ing, but the grateful greet- ings of happy little hearts and appreciative friends will reward you on the merry Christmas morvin; ALETHE LOWBER CRAIG. e+ Some Pride Left. Frem the Chicago Tribune. Prisoner. “Jedge, is this skinny, nosed feller goin’ to be my lawyer?” Judge. “He You have no attorney, and it is the duty of the court to appoint —— to defend you. Are you ready for ial?” “Jest a minute, yer honor, he’s one of these divorce lawyers, ain’t he?” — is sometimes called a divorce lawyer, (Straightening himself up) “Jedge, on thinkin’ the matter over, ef you hain't no objections, I'll take back that plea of not Guilty. I ale tee hog.” red- card and photograph cases. | a relationship not being | allow it to swing back into the face of his seniors. At the age of nine years he could offer his mother his arm, escort her to the table, place her chair for her, pick up her fan, handkerchief or gloves and perform any cf the little polite acts of every day ev- istence with the dignity and grace of a courtier. To say that he was admired by every one would not be in the least an ex- ageeration. In what striking contrast was his conduct with the indifferent, lounging carelessness of most of the boys with whom he was associated. But to attain the degree of ease and polish, it is scarcely necessary to say that the strictest rules of good breed- ing were constantly observed in that family. It may be said that such things take too much time and trouble, and that one’s home is a place of relaxation and indulgence in one’s personal peculiarities. While this may be so the question would immediately arise just what habits and practices should be allowed, and whether under any circum- stances, bad manners, loafing and extreme carelessness are to be tolerated. When once one is trained to good form, some of the most objectionable features of every day in- dulgence become as distasteful as they were aforetime thought comfortable and most necessary. All of which goes to prove the truth of the old quotation, “How use doth work a habit in a man.” — ~+ee—___ AS BIG AS A MODERN WARSHIP. Maguificence of the German Emper- ors Yacht Hohenzollern. From the London Queen. The Hohenzollern is a magnificent vessel, and looks more like a cruiser than a yacht. It is built of steel, painted white and pro- pelled by twin screws, connected with a double set of engines. its average speed is nineteen knots an hour, and this can be in- creased to over twenty knots in the hour. The Hohenzollern has two wheels, one at the stern, the other near the bow, the lat- ter worked by steam, the former by man power, both being painted white and gold | with nickel spokes. The yacht is armed with eight quick-tir- ing Krupp guns, and with its graceful out- lines sits high in the water. it has three | masts and two frnnels, painted yellow, the gilded imperial German crown on the prow and the Hohenzollern coat of arms in biack and silver, surrounded by a laurel wreath, on the stern. The deck is covered with lin- oleum, and over a large part there is an awning, where in fine weather the emperor has luncheon and tea parties. In the fore part of the vessel is a bridge reserved for It is approached by 2 mahog- ny railings, ‘the emperor’s apartments on the middle deck amidships are on the port side, those of the empress and her children on the | Starboard side. Wainscoting, doors and staircases, as well as other fitting and fur- niture, are of very light-colored, almost white, maple wood; the ceilings white, pick- ed out with gold; the rococo chimneys of nickel, and walls covered with cre- tonne, varying in pattern in the various de- partments. ‘rhe lofty and spacious dining saloon on the middie deck is twenty-tive | feet broad by seventy-five feet long, but by an ingenious arrangement of portieres can be made of any size the emperor pleases. it is upholstered in gray and white, and, ike the whole of the vessel, lighted by elec- tricity and warmed by steam pipes. On the center table stands the queen's cup, won by the Meteor at the recent royal yacht squad- ron regatta at Cowes, and on another tabie the County Down cup, won by the Meteor at the royal Uister regatta in 1802. Above this saloon is the promenade deck, with the smoking toom at one end and the emperor's bridge on the other. The smoking room 1s very comfortable, furnished and lined with porcelain plaques, on which illustrations of German battles by sea and land are paint- ed. On the upper deck is one of the emper- or’s working rooms, furnished with a tele- phone. Hanging on the wall {s the log book, and on a shelf are some nautical books. Another work room and a conter- ence room are on the middle deck, their walls being decorated with water color sketches and photographs of the queen, the Empress of Germany and her children. The saloon intended fer family gatherings is decorated in blue and silver and fitted with furniture of maple and a fireplace of marble and nickel. The empress’ bed room contains a bedstead of nickel, with a coun- terpane of re? silk and hangings of gray ; Satin. Adjoining the emperor's room aft are the apartments and the mess room of the imperial suite, while the officers’ mess room and cabins, fitted up with oak furni- ture, are situated forward. The kitchens on the deck below are splendidly fitted up. The Hohenzoliern is 116 meters long, with 14 meters beam, its tonnage 2.400, displace- ment 4,200 tons and horse power 2U,00U. : ee = SERVANTS IN INDIA. They Save Annoyance—How to Pre- vent Their Stealing. From the Pittsturg Dispatch. | Domestic life in india ts without the an- | noyance of the servant question. You never need tel! a servant what you want done in that country, they seem to know it by in- tuition. ‘fhe ordinary nousenold has about twelve servants—a cook, a waiter, a sort of valet de chambre, and, if you have two horses, two grooms; one man to run before you when you go out riding, and take care of your horse; another man whose business is to collect for your horse's feed the grass which grows in a vineltke manner upon the roads. Then in summer time you require three to four men, who work the large fans or “punkas” over you night and day while you are waking and while you are sleeping: then last, but not least, a watchman. ‘his Jast institution ts a pecultar one. If you did not have him you would be lable to find something stolen every night. Strangest of all, the only man who is a successful watch- man must be a thief—the caste of a thief. He makes no pretensions of being anything else, but as long as you have him in. oun employ nothing ever will be stolen. While the native Hindoos are very dishonest, the only way in which to keep your valuables safe is to give them into their hands for keeping. If I lockca 300 in my chest. 1 would be sure that some time or other one of my servants would steal it: but if 1 should give the money to a servant and tell him to keep it for me, he wo: ‘his life. uid guard it | WAR MEMORIES. A $1,960 Me: That Was Spoiled by an Inconsiderate Missile. From the Detroit Free Press. Conected with the Tobacco Exchange at Richmond is a gentleman who was living “under the hill” in Petersburg Guins Perilous days. After several shot and shell had passed over his house, his family left it for safer quarters, but one evening de- eided to return. Everything was quiet for an hour, and then a shot came booming over. This was enough for wife and_chil- dren, but the husband got mad and de- clared he would stay there that night if every gun in ‘he federal intrenchments was turned loose upon him. Half an hour went by, and he was patting himself on the back over his grit, when the federals suddenly opened five or six heavy guns at the hill, Shot and shell roared and hissed and screamed, and the man’s hair began to crawl. He stuck there, however, until boom! bish! crash! came a cannon ball as big as his head plump through one side of the house and out at the other, and then he flew out doors and struck a gait just a litde faster than greased lightning. Singu- larly enough, that was the only shot which ever hit the house, though dozens fell around it. After Grant had his guns in position, and more especially after he began reaching cut for the Weldon railroad, he could have knocked Petersburg to pieces in twenty- four hours. He would probably have done so had there been any excuse for it, but there was none. The confederate lines were a mile and a half away, and Petersburg was held only by non-combatants. Never- theless, Grant did not propose that any one in reach of his guns should sleep soundly or forget his presence. Occasionally shots were, therefore, pitched into the city to check any enthusiasm, and if anybody got cver an hour’s sleep at a time it was con- sidered something to boast of. One night during a heavy firing to the left of the crat- er, the federal guns were for a time so ele- vated that every missile cleared the con- federate lines, howled over Petersburg and fell among the houses under the hill. One shell entered the window of a house and exploded in the parlor. A part of the front of the house was blown out, one side de- molished, the cnamber floors driven through the roof and the whole building weakened. The pecple had moved out, but left all their goods and a dog to watch them. No one could say just where the dog was when the explosion took place, but he was not killed. During the same fire, and five minutes after a family had taken up their quarters in a bomb-proof of the back yard, a shell drove in the front door, penetrated the floor nd exploded under the house. There were five rooms below and four above, and the explosion shook off every bit of plaster and knocked down every partition in the lower part. The family well was at the back of the house, and so much debris was driven into it that no water could be got for days. In the winter of 1864 a citizen who had unexpectedly received $2,000 in confederate currency on an old debt, determined to have @ good square dinner, and company to help to eat it. Rye coffee, bacon, meal, rice and molasses were about the only provisions in market; but at a cost of $1,960 the citizen scraped together enough to justify him in inviting a company of six friends. The guests were in the parlor, the table set, and the cook was over the stove, when a shell entered the dining room through the side of the house. The explosion so wrecked the room that no one couid enter it. The table, pieces of which I saw, could not have been demolished any better with an ax, and the plaster in two or three rooms was shaken down. + 02 THE PRIVILEGES OF MONACO. . The Prince Will Not Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg. The report current some time ago that the Prince of Monaco intended to resign as head of the greatest gambling state in the world and devote himself to the pursuit of science, his favorite pastime, has apparently proved to be unfounded. He earns his money too easily in his present place, and evidently has little intention either of gtv- ing it up or of driving the heads of the gambling society from his dominions. “Monaco,” says the Staatsbuerger-Zel- tung, “has 7,000 inhabitants. In 1514 Tal- leyrand wrote in the diplomatic act which was to regulate the conditions of all Eu- rope: ‘And the Prince of Monaco returns to his states.’ In 1815 it was further decided that the existing relations between France and Monaco should cease, and that thence- forth the King of Sardinia was to play the part in the principality formerly played by the House of Bourbon. Then, in 1860, Mo- naco exchanged the Italian protectorate for the French protectorate, and maintained its privilege—despite the protests of the public press and the powers—of giving an asylum to professional gamblers and spendthrifts in its gambling hells, because France did not wish to ‘interfere in the internal af- fairs of Monaco." “An idea of what colossal sums of money are lost in Monaco can be gathered from the last report of the ‘Societe Anonyme des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers,’ the gambiing society. The gains last year amounted to more than 23,000,000 francs. The capital of the company is 30,000,000, For each of the last six years the company has set aside a reserve fund of 1,000,000 francs. In 1915 this reserve fund will amount to as much as the capital. The Prince of Monaco, who married a Hebrew lady, receives a yearly allowance of 1,250,- 000 francs. In addition to this, the company pays all the government expenses of the principality, attends to the cleaning of the streets, and provides the water works and lighting of the public thoroughfares. The public has free schools and has no taxes or other levies to pay, but it has also nothing ‘to say regarding public affairs. ‘The society pays 250,00u francs annually to the theater, the public orchestra costs as much more, and the officials of the society, including over 1v¥ croupiers, cost annually over 1,500,- 000 francs. To the press the society pays $00,000 francs. Among the regular expenses are the outlays for removing unhappy vic- tims of the games. The total expenses of the company amount yearly to 11,500,000 francs.” cos. CHURCH-GOING IN HAWAIL Adult Worshipers Smoking Pipes or Sleeping and Girls Enjoying Their Cigars. Sunday at the great church, not a chim- ney to relieve its barn outline, says a cor- respondent of the Boston Transcript. A little girl sits at the entrance smoking a cigar. This entrance is as floorless as if at a circus; the sexton, a Chinaman all joints, is pulling at the church bell. As worship- ers enter the bell puller stops to talk with those who come in, until all sound ceases and we enter. The plastered walls inclose a large area. Here is a family in a roomy pew near the door—four children with the mother and father. As the service pro- gresses the children must be amused; a loaf of bread is produced, and while the mother nurses the baby she cuts three slices from the loaf and adds these to the spiritual food which ts offered her restless young ones from the pulpit. Directly below the preacher two old wo- men are seated sideways, confronting each other, their arms firmly clasping the knees. Each smokes a pipe; as they smoke they nod and yawn. From the congregation loud snores are occasionally heard; two littie boys, close by the preacher, skirmish with umbrellas. One of the boys is driven to the wall; the father of the defeated comes from the body of the church and roughly drives away the boy who has discomfited his child. Young men and women stroil down the aisles, or step over the backs of scats to get drinks, sometimes returning with a mug or calabash of water for a friend. A horse thrusts his head through a window and looks quietly upon the audience. How- ever, in spite of these events the main por- tion of the large assemblage seems undis- turbed; the mother with four children pro- duces a rattle, a dernier resort, to quiet the baby. A woman is seized with headache, she loosens her hair and signals a friend. who crosses to her in beeline, bestriding the backs of the seats, and kneads the mus- cles of her head in native fashion (lomi lomi). Pausing in his part (he is, by the way, the only tenor voice in the choir), a young man takes from his pocket a little mirror and a comb, carefully arranges his =— and combs his hair, standing in full ew. “Look!” cries the preacher, on tip-toe, and with vigorous gestures, “look at the sea, look at that old hill, there are enough raw fish and taro, while you are complain- ing of famine! Why doesn’t the Lord bring your calabashes full? Oh, you are too lazy! ‘Go to the ant,’” etc. Turning to me, the only stranger present, he trans- lates this part of the sermon, the interrup- tion being received with equanimity by the people. Suddenly descending he borrows a eap, which he holds toward each person in the audience, not excepting his own family, for money or a written promise to bring it next Sabbath, and enters into a discussion of pros and contras, when his parishioners object to giving. The delinquents biush and stammer with native grace; a few young men who attempt to slip away from their obligations are checked by a brisk turn of the minister's spectacies; he forces back change upon such as give beyond his approval; the little ones who have brought @ kaneta are praised and thanked. As a father his cl this lives in their confidence and love, SWIFTEST OF KNOWN MOONS. Jupiter's Fifth Satellite Travels Over Sixteen Miles Every Second. From the Hartford Times. A newer and more accurate computation by Prof. Barnard determines the true period of the flying little moon to be eleven hours, fifty-seven minutes and 22.56 seconds. It flies around the giant planet at the wild rate of 16.4 miles a second, a rate of twelve | times swifter than that of little Phobos, the inner one of the two satellites of Mars. (These two little moons of Mars also were discovered by an American observer.) This fifth moon of Jupiter is not only very smali— 80 small, indeed, that even the space-pen- etrating eye of the giant refractor on Mount Hamilton fails to reveal it as a disk, and leaves it a mere stellar point of light—but it is also very near the great planet. Prof. Baznard does not believe it can exceed, even if {t equals, a diameter of 100 miles—truly a wonderful speck to see, by an observer sta- toned on our globe, gazing through a pro- found gulf of space about 400,000,000 of miles deep! And the tiny object is flying around the deep majestic orb of Jupiter at the least posible distance consistent with its own safety; for it is found to lie at a distance of 67,000 miles from Jupiter's sur- face, just outside of a certain limit, inside ot which, it seems, no sateilite could exist, because of the enormous attractive power of the great planet, which would pretty cer- tainly tear tne little myon to pieces. 4t 1s also computed pretty certainly that any freely moveable opject on the surface of this newly discovered moon, as a man, a chair, a cart, etc., must be instantly drawn for rather hurled( through the 67,000 intervening miles directly to the big planet as soon as Jupiter rises above the horizon of any such object. A man on that satellite would have to be anchored with something heavier than Senator Stewart's long silver speech if he would avoid a cannon-pall flight to Jupiter, with the prospect of being dashed to bits on landing. And then he would still be over 40,000 miles from the center of the great planet, so vast is its bulk. Indeed, the littie moon is believed to be already losing its bulk, in the shape of various materials drawn off into a ring; a thin ring like one of Saturn’s encircling Jupiter, but, as yet, invisible from the earth. 1t may be true. Even to be drawn into a ring wouldn't hurt so bad as to go the whole distance of the Planet itself. There are those who think that our earth was once encircled by a bright ring. The only satellites the world has ever known as belonging to Jupiter— until Porf. Barnard’s interesting discovery— were the four that Gallileo discovered, with that little “optic gla: of his, as Milton somewhere calls that pioneer spyglass, in the year 1610. The third of those four satel- lites is over 3,400 miles in diamete:—or as big probably as the fleet silver planet, Mer- cury, ————+e2+-____ ORIGIN OF ANTHRACITE. A Theory Offered as a Solution of a Mystery of Science. From the Independent. The main difference between anthracite and bituminous coal is that the former is devoid of volatile matter. Heretofore the theory generally accepted to account for this difference was that presented half a cen- tury ago by Prof. Rodgers while conducting the first geological survey of Pennsylvania. Observing that the anthracite beds lay in the eastern part of the state, in close prox- imity to the Archean axis of elevation, he surmised that these coal beds had, so to speak, been “‘coked” upon the elevation of the Appalachian chain; that is, he sup- posed that the heat and pressure accompa- nying the Appalachian elevation, acting most vigorously near the axis, had distilled and removed the volatile matter of the coal bed nearest it. To adjust the theory to increasing facts, Prof. Lesley added the supposition that the heat involved tn this theory w: brought up by conduction when the superincumbent layers of rock were extremely thick, which have since been mainly removed by the erosive agencies which have been active over the region for millions of years. The inadequacy of these theories has led Prof. J, J. Stevenson of the University of New York to propound another and simpler the- ory, which was ably defended by him at the recent meeting of the Geological Society of America. He would account for the tack of volatile matter in anthracite coal by the simple fact that it had been longer expored to that of decay which takes place in vege- table matter when immersed with water, and which consists chiefly in the loss of the hydrocarbons which constitute the volatile elements in bituminous coal. On this supposition the anthracite beds are those which were formed earliest in the swamps and lagoons of the carboniferous period, and remained longest devoid of the covering of sedimentary deposits, which subsequently preserved them from further change. This theory is confirmed by the fact that there is no such strict relation of the anthracite beds to the Appalachian axt« of elevation as Prof. Rodgers had supposed, and by many other considerations which Prof. Stevenson is about to publish. The simple cause seems adequate to account for all the phenomena. and probably solves one of the long-standing mysteries of geologi- cal science. —_—_+ + ____ KILLED HERSELF IN PUBLIC. How a Berenved f{hinese Fiancee Ended Her Days. Mr. Medhurst, for many years British consul at Shanghai, tells in the London Million of a singular “card of invitation” which he once received in China. It was from a lady, intimating her intention to commit suicide on a specified date. She was very young and attractive, and be- lorged to a wealthy family; but the Chi- nese gentleman to whom she had been affianced from childhood having died just before the date fixed for their nuptials, she gave out that she deemed it her duty to render her widowhood irrevocable by dying with her betrothed. So she sent cards around to the local gentry giving notice of her purpose. No attempt was made by her relatives or the local authorities to frus- trate her design, though Mr. Medhurst ap- pealed to the mandarins, the general opin- jon being that she was about to perform a meritorious act. Eventually, on the named, the woman did deliberately sac- rifice her life in the presence of thousands of spectators. A stage was erected in the open fields, with a tented frame over it, from which was suspended a slip of scarlet crepe. One end of this slip she fastened round her neck, and then, embracing a little boy presented by one of the bystand- ers, she mounted a chair and resolutely jumped off, “her little clasped hands sa- luting the assemblage as her body twirled round with the tightening cord.” The wo- man was not hounded on by a fanatic mob, as was the practice at suttees in India, but immolation appeared to be an entirely vol- untary act. Sacrifices of this kind, accord- ing to Mr. Medhurst, are not uncommon in certain districts of China, and, strange to sav. they are rewarded with monuments, sometimes erected by order of the em- peror. _—_—+e.—___—_ Riackmall in Paris. tter to the Argonaut. veanasiae pundreds of men and women who live in ease and even splendor by ex- torting money from people in high places who have some dark and guilty chapter of their lives that needs concealment. This form of blackmail became so prevalent in England that the penalty on conviction was made imprisonment for life. In France vasts sums of money are still paid black- mailers. A young and fashfonable but impecunious Scotch nobleman, who had squandered the large sums he had made by his abnormally good luck on the turf, recently sought to repair his broken fortunes by forming a matrimonial alliance with an heiress, and for this purpose put himself in the hands of a lady who ts well known in Paris as a marriage broker, and by no means loses any part of her great social prestige by the fact being thoroughly well understood that she marries off her friends for a commis- sion—at s0 much a head, as it were. The Scotch peer, having told this lady what he was in search of, the question of commis- sion having been decided on and agreed to, the desired heiress was sought for and found in the person of a very pretty young girl of eighteen, who was being very strictly brought up at a convent at Nantes, the lady superior of which institution having, of course, to be allowed “to stand in,” the girl being an orphan and the head of the con- vent exercising great influence over her. That the dowry was very considerable was beyond question, and that the young lady herself was most charming was an- other agreeable fact, so that no questions were asked at first as to the source of the girl’s fortune; but at last a very shocking discovery was made, which at once put a stop to the projected union, for it trans- pired that the girl's father, long since dead, been sentenced to penal servitude for life for blackmailing, and that it was by this villainous means that he had BRITISH POSTAL IDEAS. The Plan for Penny Postage Through- ut the Whole Empire. Thomas L. James in Frank Leslie’s Weekly. There are two living Englishmen, J. Hen- niker Heaton, member of parliament for Canterbury, and J. D. Rich, postmaster at Liverpool, each of whom furnishes an ex- cellent illustration of the man of affairs striving honestly to serve the public. Both of these men are identified with postal re- form, a subject of interest to every person because the post office is peculiarly @ do- mestic institution and comes home closer to the people than any other department of the government. For several years Mr. Heaton has been urging the british government to adopt a system of imperial penny postage, that is to Say, he would make the empire single postal district, when a penny stamp would frank a letter, not merely from street to street, or country to country, but from one end of the queen's dominions to the other—from Cal- eucta to Vancouver, from Edinburgh to Syd- ney. This scheme is interesting w the peo- ple of this country, because Mr. Heaton nas lately included in it the United States. Some of his English critics have objected to this part of the program. They say that by admitting a foreign country to the benefits of the reform its value and eificacy are affected as a means of binding the various parts of the empire together. Mr. Heaton answers that this contention is a fallacy; that as each country keeps its own postage it would be open ‘to our government to maintain the present rate even after it had been reduced for the British empire. The reform, he contends, would certainly gratify the large number of emigrants from the British Isles who have come to this country, especially the Irish, who are num- bered by the millions and who carry on a large correspondence with their relatives ard friends in the mother country. Every year 400,000 persons in the United States send over a sum of $7,500,000 in small postal orders to their friends in the united king- dom. Mr. Heaton modestly says that this is It is simply the nat- not his “scheme.” ural extension of Rowland Hill’s plan of penny postage and is made necessary the growth and extent of civilization. From estimates he has made he has shown that @ penny postage rate, to the very ends of the earth, would vield a profit to the Brit- ish rovernment. He urges that the queen empire fs not a compact mags of states, but @ large number of communities scattered over hoth hemispheres, and includes some 330,000,000 of the human race. He com- pares it to the Dutch and Snanish empires, which fell to pleces for want of a cohesive force. Cheap postal and telegraphic com- ——- will bind the members of these communities torether. The commercial in- terests of the colonies will be benefited by & reduction of the present rate, which is a tax on the merchant. Mr. Heaton says he can understand the state chareing a tax of 6 pence on a ton of coal actually sold, but he cannot understand a tax of & pence in the shane of nostage on the letter ar lend- ine to that business transaction. He he- Neves that the state should encourage by a Moterate contribution those operations of commerce in the initial etaee which ulti. matelv furnish work to Fnelish workers, end thin henett the entire communite, Every vear 250900 emigrants leave the Perit. {eh Isles to develon the entonial emnire. Thetr works reentt in the crantion of new markets for British goods. Fach emigrent leaves hehind him caveral tends keenly SORIS teh tae ae All these peonle wow feel the efit —— of the penny postal About elght vears aro Mr. Heaton xtarted out with a nroeram of sixty senarate nostal reforms: ba hag won more than half af them. which fe saving » erent deal when ft is remembered that there are prravad aeainet him all the forcne of etalta Pnelich oMictalicm, He says that hia earch for Ine formation amone these “Tite Rarnacles* has heen as excitine as an otter hunt. Tn anawer to Inennvenient muestions “tha min. ister would dive into the depth of official lgnorance. come un under cover of an obseure phrase, wriccle with ambientties. snan fercely at trifine Inescuracios and ereny conket baron ike an injured and hunted creature ins = Se ee ee itead of stating can- Mr. Heston ts also the champion of chean teleeranhy. He hne often arened against the mononolv of cable communication nos- mowed by the Enclish companies, whore system fs so nrranged that no line can be bull nn sae ——+e+____ ONE WOMAN'S WAY. She Has Accommodated Herself to Her Husband’s Vagaries. From the New York Reconter. “I used to sit up for my husband o’ night: said a bright little woman to me the other day, “but I've gotten bravely over it. “Of course it took me some time to ascer- tain that his excuses for staying out four nights a week wouldn’t hold water, and there was a good deal of pain connected with the discovery, too. “All this talk about luring or bribing your husband to stay at home with a bright fire, pretty and clean children, a neat dress, a sweet smile and both yourself and the tea- kettle ready to sing at a moment's notice is mostly humbug. “My home is as neat and pretty as any one’s. I am not absolutely unattractive and have some nice people to call very often. “But I say it, both in sorrow and anger, these things do not, with my husband, take the place of the saloon, the poker table or the music hall. “I don’t mean that he drinks very much or gambles very much. I have never seen him the worse for liquor, and if he loses money at cards it doesn’t affect my allow- ance in any way. “He is simply what his set call ‘sociable,’ and he likes the society of men who are really much rougher and coarser than he is, “Men seem to have some barbaric strain in them, some remnant of their ancient savagery, that no amount of gentleness or affection can tame. “After nine years I have given up trying, and so when my savage says at dinner: ““Oh, by the way, Kitty, I've got to go uptown tonight.’ “I know that it will be long after mid- night when he returns. I don’t plead or protest or inquire any more. I say, simply: “ ‘Don’t forget your latch key.’ “And off he goes. “Then I send the servant around to the house of a young lady friend of mine with an inquiry as to her engagements. “If she has the evening free we go to some theater, each paying her own way, or to some concert, and we have many a nice little time. “It’s certainly better than sitting at home wishing the time away and thinking bitter thoughts. “We act as escorts to each other and were never molested but once. “That was when a very affectionate and very drunken man chased us a block, and when he got in front of us kissed his hand and wanted to know if he shouldn't escort us home. “When I had called him a contemptible scoundrel and Mary had given him a push that sent him up against the side of a house he concluded that he had made a mistake and reaily blinked at us in a terrible way as we flew up the street. “I told my husband of this, and he de- clared that he would always come for us in future. “But he doesn’t do it very often, and, really, we are getting so independent that we don’t need him. “Of course, it’s a sad state of affairs, but, as I can’t seem to remedy them, I uy to be philosophical and bear what must be borne.” ————_+e+-—___ GOLD UNDER A CATARACT, A Huge Log Plunging Into the Water Discovers a Mine of Wealth. 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