Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1896, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. A PERSIAN SEASON Almost Anything in Rich Colors With an Oriental Effect. FAVORITE STYLES FOR WAISTS What is New in Hats and Bon- nets. ———E CHILDREN’S DRESSES HERE IS A SENSE in which we may name seasons by the names which nations bear. There have been Japanese sea- sons, Egyptian sea- sons, Dutch seasons; this is Persian. Poor old Horace, who said or sung that he hated Persian | trappings,would have a hard time were he living in New York for escape from the objects of his wrath he could not. If he strolled down Sroadway, he would see “Persian novelties in enue Persian effects | * on 6th ay uld affront Persian delicate Ro- gns in nolition as he ing place, his ler is stopp cape, through not know- 3 apparal on sight. | goes, it means almost any- ‘lors and h a bizarre, WE ARE Now effects are used as arasols. over which | Oriental effect. Such the groundwork for Puchesse lace may be cunningly displayed. Or such foundations may be c the openwork grass linen so mu dence, and so dainty for many uses. . Along with the Pe ities in suit- ings »me some more home sounding | names. srenadines are in as high favor as ld—they come in all colors and « stripes. They, like the grass lin- made up Inte dresses over silks of dr rs_and | aterials are dimities, polka dotted linens i guod old-fashioned sound- ing stuffs For instance, for a girl of eight: a pink pique made with a jacket and skirt, a white biouse waist of embroidery and’ in- zertion, with a wide sailor collar. Pretty are the poke bonets prepared for OF WILD GEESE. HABIT Their Pugnacious Courtship and Oc- | casional Elopements. | From the Kansas Star. | Objects hich never fail just now to at- tract the attention of travelers over west- erm Kansas are flocks of wild geese feeding | upon the rich fields of wheat, which this | spring seem to spread a carpet of green over all the broad domain. To rest and ri fresh themselves in their annual fli northward, the geese alight in these fields. They select their ground carefully, choosing a spot remote from human habitation and Situated that they may see all the coun- around about, and thus be warned of | the approach of danger in time to take ight In their reigrations early spring and southward in the late fall, Bild geese fly in families of a dozen or | arranging themselves in the form of the letter In- | hn other, and the other goose a little northward in the in advance of the imes many fam anite for a time and travel t er, but always that inevitable letter clearly defined in the sky, the procession led by a gander, who has fere, an fight While tinel, whe flock, his traveled the road be- se “Honk! honk! guides the | ding every family posts a sen- | nds in the midst of the feeding stretched high, fixed and to. Hutehi 2k with Col. George W. Veale of Topek: who knows all about wild geese, a repr ative of t ar witnessed this spe tacle of patience and faithfulnes: too, an attempt by a farmer boy to ste: pon the flock with a gun. The passengers crowded to the windows or hastened to the car platforms, and the engineer, also inter- ested, slowed down the train to a creep. The boy crept down a draw to a point nearest the geese and then began to work Way over a rise. The boy was to lee- e sentin uld not be warned enemy had not yet got to view. Sk the boy tolled his way. hi body flat against the sround. Finally he | had dragged himself to a point where hej} e the geese feeding over a radius of | ty yards from the sentinel, and moving iowly in the direction of the boy. He had only to be patient, and his reward would be a b of wild geese. But he possessed a curiosity. He raised his head to look. and sa scarfs | | McPherson, or W. L. | Pion has whipped all comer: | be flying near by Uttle tots of from two to four. They are made in delicate shades of dotted swiss or gauze, with face trimmings of lace or rib- don. Grenadine has a good old-fashioned sound, but a figured grenadine costing from $4 to $7 a yard is not exactly demo- eratic simplicity, particularly when made up, like one in purple which I have seen, over a black silk foundation, with a full skirt, a waist in soft folds of grenadine combined with black chiffon, and with a yoke and girdle of white and gilt passe- menterie. The Persiaa patterns are particularly suited for house gowns, purple and laven- der being prevailing shades, though there are beautiful shaded green and pink foun- dations wits roses and green leaves, fair showing through lace. A typical tea gown in Persian siik has a ground work in white scattered with delicate pink roses. The front is full, the back has a Watteau plait erding in a demi-train. Wide cream lace finishes the elbow sleeves and falls from the shoulders quite to the walst. A house gown as beautiful is made in princess cut, the yoke of heavy ecru pas- sementerie, finished underneath with a wide lavender ribbon, which is carried over the shoulders and knots behind in stream- ers which fall to the bottom of the train. Persian again, and of course, are the favorite waists of the season, say in light and dark blues with butterfly sleeves and yokes of white satin embroidered in silver |) a SS | | | IN THE and gold, their belts narrow velvet straps, their buckles small and gilded. There is, too, a waist in green Persian with a coat tail effect. It has a full front of light blue mousseline de soie, is lined with light biue, and there are ted swiss waists made up with white and black lace insertion, ard shirt wa of wash silk and swivel silks, and grass linen shirt waists over different colored silks, with blouse fronts and stock ritbon collars, and waists of amber chiffon whose sleeves are successions of puffs, and whose white satin yokes are set with tiny turquoises and Fearls. It is a comfortable fashion which pro- vide: waist with a linen colar which c: be detached and substituted by a_ stock ribbon collar with a big bow, which is very much softer and prettier. Petticoats more elaborate than ever are made to match the corsets of the season. There are handsome ones of Persian silk trimmed with white lace, and of white silk silk soft and dot- “Quack! quack!” sounded the warning of the sentinel. li was excitement in the cemp, the sentinel ran, knowing that there was danger, the others of the family fol- lowing. After a dash of thirty yards they rose in the air, but flying low, the sentine guiding “Honk!” ahead of them. At the quack of the sentinel the boy rose and gave chase, but the geese were too fleet of foot and too far away when they took wing, and the boy’s shot fell short of his aim. ‘The geese were in wild disorder when they lifted themselves into the but after that | not a sound was heard save from the sen- tinel, whose notes soon became assuring, and before they had flown a quarter of a mile they were high in the sky, and, behold, there was the never-failing letter “A.” Then the silent and inspired spectators from the train, which was now moving rap- idly, witnessed another spectacle. The dan- ger past, the sentinel, which had been in the lead, dropped back and took his posi- tion at the end of the longer arm of the “A,” while from that position the father of the family pushed to the head of the col- umn, and, from the end of the skorter arm, the mother goose flew forward and joined him. Until that moment they had been | flying a southwesterly direction, but “Honk! honk” commanded the leader, and they whirled to the northward and soon were lost to view. Naturally the incident became a subject of comment in the car after the geese had disappeared, and Colonel Veale, who has spent a lifetime on the plains of Kansas, en- tertained the passengers who crowded about him with wild goose stories, and when his word was doubted he called upon J. W. Moore of Marion. of “Farmer Smith of Brown of Kingman, who were on the train, to verify him. Col. Veale declires that while resting and feed- ing on their flights north the young gecse mate. He says that while collecting his Seattered herds he has watched goose court- ships by the hour. First, he says, the voung ganders fight for the pick of the maidens of the flock. These struggles continue sometimes for days. and when the cham- he chooses tie d the pair the other ad so until “Hobson's plumpest goose of the flock, settle down to married life. gande fight it out, chole nly is left. Col. Veale also declares that not quently young ganders will from their own family “A,” fly off a cut mates from other families which It is Col. Veale's ob: vation that this Is the easier way for a gander to get a mate, as it is impossible to fight in the air, and, with that vanity na- tive In the female breast and pleased by the infre- Ethel. = guess you'll have to make and Ma—What proposed to Fred Gordon and he up your mind to adopt a son.” promised to be a brother to me.” trimmed with irregularly placed lace-edged tucked ruffies. And there is—to pass from ‘@bstract to a concretion—this example, cull- ed from a June trousseau in preparation; the material is a pink brocaded satin seattered over with dark pink flowers, It is Van Dyked with wide cream Valerci- ennes lace, each point caught with a rosette of narrow pink ribbon. The corsets match, and their tops are gay with lace and with the same pink ribbon. Tailor gowns we have still with us, and their materials are English cheviots, plain, mixed and in small checks. The checks are used for skirts with plain dark jackets whose lapels are faced with lighter goods harmonizing with the skirts. The plain cheviots are made with silk, invisibly but- toned, provided with rolling collars and three pockets, two hip pockets and one on the breast! "Who says that woman ad- vanceth not? A plain full skirt of taffeta silk, shading from tan to green, is the foundation of one tailor’s model. The bodice is draped with lack chiffon embroidered in ecru, the taf- feta sleeves are full and a ruff of knife plaited chiffon at the neck is caught with a rhinestone buckle in front. Another pretty model dress has a plain full skirt of cheviot in a small green and white check. The short jacket is of green cloth, whose revers are faced with white moire. The jacket is trimmed with tiny pearl buttons and is worn over a full blouse front effect of white moire silk. There are many things to note. There are hats, purple hats, with trimmings of purple and yellow flowers. ‘There are odd hats of white satin covered with black horse netting, spangled with rbinestones. There are hats with brims entirely cov- ered with jonquils or with violets, and hats with crow“is of pink roses and green leave! There are toques and bonnets of roug! purple straw wiih bedeckments of violets. There are ostrich feather boas for spring wear, in delicate shades of pearl, gray and amber. ‘There are tan and blue jackets, trimmed with gilt braid outlining the seams, pock- ets and lapels, or with fancy braid laid on in scroll work or vertically. MIDST OF THE SEASON. There are ‘new sleeves" on the gowns, but yet old sleeves on cloaks and wraps. There are carriage parasols all roses, brocade silk and chiffon and walking para- scls in scarcely less elabora There are gcwns in gra million, and in other openwork materials which require an expensive foundation. There are hats, and those the most com- mon, which come low in front to shade the face, and which rise high over the hair behind. There are hats in purple Tuscan straw with straight brims narrower behind than in front, continental hats with crowns of faney lavender straw, green hats with Grooping brims overlaid with white hye cinths and knotted green tulle. White and green, indeed, is almost as common a color scheme as plain purple. And above and beyond all there is color in-everything, the colors of the rainbow and more; for these are but seven. ELLEN OSBORN. mark of favor shown from another fami: the little goose unhesitatingly abandons | companions and lovers of her own kindred and files off with her captor. The incident causes a little flurry in the flock for a mo- ment and sometimes a young gander gives chase, but he soon turns back and catches up with his family, biding his time to make good the loss by a reprisal upon some other flock. THERE W' a RE FI an Extra Quarter to Find Where They Were. “The most taciturn people in the world live in western North Carolina and east Tennesse said a department clerk to a Star reporter. “I went fishing near Elk Park, and in some of the streams down there is the fivest trout fishing in the world. There | Were four of us in the party, and we went tp ene of the mountain creeks for about three miles. A native passed us, and I uskei ‘Are there any trout in this creek? “Yep.” “We threw our lines and fished every hole In the creek for two miles without getting a bite; then walked back toward town with empty baskets. Meeting the native again, 1 said: “‘T thought you stated there were trout in that creek? ““Thar is. ““Well, we didn’t get a bite.’ “I "lowed yo’ all wouldn’ when I seed yo’ try.’ ‘Why not, if there are fish there? “"Yo"’ didn’t ax me ef thar war trout whar yo" was fishin’. “‘What did I ask you?’ I inquired, get- ting angry. “‘Ef thar war trout in the crick, an’ thar is, heap of ‘em.’ “Where are they?" il in the crick.’ “What part of the creek? ‘In the middle, ‘cept them as at the sides. Thar ain't none on the banks.’ “I gave him a quarter, and he said: They don't never come up this far. “Bout two mile down the crick thar's plenty.” - “We went down the creek, and the native was right. I never saw better fishing.” ——— eee ning St April's Lady. Skies of April, cout of May, Drcams-cnfolding, tender, gay— All fair omens trace thy way April's lady, child of spring. But It T n for The good angels guard and bless, May no rough winds e’er caress, Gentle thoughts alone possess, April's lads, child of spring. When the trees put forth their leaves; With the sunlight's golden sheaves Fluttering round bird-baunted eaves, Was thy coming, child of spring. When the Andt With a murawrous song and sweep, Bloomed this peerless bud of sprivg. lowers awoke from sleep, Warp of April, woof of May, Threads of Heaven's seconest ray— Weave thy robe for aye and aye, April's lady, ehild of spring. —FRANK H. RAINEY. eg Comment on the Sermon. From the Yonkers Statesman, Mrs. Crimsonbeak—‘‘Don’t you think there Was a good deal of truth in the Rey. Mr, Long's sermon today?” Mr. Crimsonbeak—"Yes; especially when he said it was impossible for any of us to tell when the end would come.” A CLOUD.SURVEY New Line of Work Under the Weather ‘Bureau. MEASUREMENT .-OF CLOUDS See How Air Currents Will Be Better Understodd. Mb fe aR THE WARNINGS TO BE GIVEN I N ADDITION TO his several other sur- veys, Uncle Sam is shortly to have @ cloud survey. Me- teorologists are to ap- ply, on an extensive scale, surveying in- struments to these vaporous masses, to learn their exact helghts, . dimensions, directions, velocities, capacities, ete. Se Elaborate prepara- tions are being made at the national weather bureau for this novel ne of special study, purposed to greatly increase the weather wisdom of its forecasters and observers. Very little is now known concerning the actual measurements, motions and positions of clouds, although the latter are the most conspicuous factors of dafly weather pre- diction, The Survey Stations. ‘The new cloud surveying will begin on the Ist of next month, to continue exactly one year, in conjunction with all of the other weather services of the world. ‘The princ'- pal observations in this country will be made at Washington, but other selected stations in various states will co-operate. ‘The United aving the greatest con- tinuous ext territory and the most efficient service of all countries intereste tions. The principal cloud observat are being new ar d at New York, Blue Hill ob- ton, Buffalo and Detroit, The will study the cloud forma- tions ove > lake regions. Representatives of the different national weather serv: have been arranging for this extensive work for several years. A uniform system of observatiun was lately agreed upon by the international meteorological congress, held at Munich, and, according to this, all studies in the various countries will be made simul- taneously. Chiet Moore has appointed Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, one of the weather bureau's ctief meteorologists, to direct the work on behalf of the United States. The Object. The result of the cloud survey will be the beginning of a great man of the at- mosphere above, the earth. When geolo- gists plot a chart of the earth’s crust they show each layer of mineral strata. These meteorologists will show {n' their new map the layers of gasedus strata above the earth. Such a chart, if made in model form, wou'd fit over a globe like the thin hull of a walnut. The skilled eye of the ‘meteorologist has learned to tell which clouis are higher than others. By measuring the precise distance hetween a cloud apd the earth and by jearning its exact direction, they will know that there is a currépt of a the same height, moving in the |same direction. When they learn thé velocity of the cloud they will know hdw fast the air cur- rent Is moving But how will thése ‘measurements be made? The surveyor may measure the height of a mountaiy by using the theodo- lite. He first establishes ‘a base line on the earth and measures from each end the angles to be used ir his comgpmtation. sy applying certain formula he estimates the dimensions of the mountain by triangula- tion. A cloud might be called a great mountain or mountain-chaih of vapor. Measuring Heights of Clouds. Prof. Bigelow has establisned his base line between the top of the weather bureau and the west pavilion of the State, War and Navy Department. Both stations are to be In direct telephonic connection. On each observatory will be placed a theodo- lite, especially fitted for cloud surveying. Suppose that_a conspicuous cloud appears in the north. The observer on the weather bureau tower call3 the observer at the other end of zhe line by telephone and they agree upon a certain point at the top of the clowl. They compare watches and agree to take meas' nts at the same minute precisely jotted down in their noe b A similar meas- urement is made straightway at a point at the bottom of the cloud and at either end. imilar measurements may be repeated ev- ry minute or iwo, as long as the cloud remains in sight. By comparing notes and applying formulae they afterward iearn how high the cloud was above the earth, how high it was from bottom to top, how long from end to end, now far it traveled in a given time and what was its direc- tion. Such urements will continue hour every day, dur- iwd. AS soon as one another will be taken up. to May 1, 1897, all sorts en, representing every of clouds will be phase of usual weather. Cloud Classification. That cloud observations of one country may be understood by all others an inter- national cloud classification has been late- ly agreed upon. Clouds have been divided into classes and named according to their characteristic furms. From many photo- graphs taken at various times in different parts of the world one view of each rep- resentative form has been selected. Half tones of these, each labeled with its proper name, are being made and will be distrib- uted among all branch stations of the weather bureau and such persons as may care to aid in the study. Every observer, whether connected with the international survey or not, will be instructed to asso- ciate the proper names with the proper clouds and to call them accordingly in all dispatches, warnings, etc. The new clas- sification Will therefore be of interest to the general public, who will hereafter hear considerable about various clouds. The whole cloud system, Prof. Bigelow says, rises in the morning, until noon and then continues to fall. The hotter the day the higher are all clouds. For instance, the delicate “Cirrus” or feathery clouds, the highest class, are a mile and a half nigher in Summer than in winter. All other cionds vary in this respect, in similar pro- Portion, while commion sain clouds are a third of a mile higher in hot than in cold weather. The uppers clouds are found to move always from tiiree-to four times fas- ter than. the lower ohes.i In extreme cases they travel one hundred smiles an hour. In tornadoes, on the cantrary, the wind near the ground is-of greater velocity than that a-mile high. The Results, The practical alne of this coming year of cloud surveying il be apparent soon after the close of measurements. Ob- servers of the weather bureau will be able to telegraph to headquarters more definite warnings of the ajipearance of danger clouds over the horton, | just’ as scouting vessels will be abl® to notify the Navy Department of the it appearance of hos- tile vesseis near out seaxoasts, in case of war. Upon being a@ivised of the class, di- rectiot and otherM@letails of threatening clouds thus appearifig to any of the border observatories, the authorities here at head- quarters may prepare more definite tnfor- mation to be sent to substations in all re- gions endangered. But more than all this, greeter knowledge, in the broad sense, will be obtained of the relations between the weather and cloud formations, positions and movements, and our weather prophets will be enabled to see in the sky a more definite map of each day's future. ee ees Plausible. From the Indtanapolis Journal. “T," the young man frankly admitted, “am looking for a snap.” “Well,” the elderly one suggested, “if you have the ginger it ought to be easy to find some one with the dough.” ‘And a great silence fell inaudibly, SHE’S AN AMERICAN GIRL. A Bit of a Story Which Has the Merit Trath, From the Chicago Record. Here's a bit of a story that comes from London and has the rare merit of truth. There was a certain yourg American girl in London who had come over with only the courage of youth and the point of a pen to keep the wolf away. She hadn't the easiest time in the world, let me tell rou. One day she presented herself at the of- fice of an editor who had bought “stuff” of her. The great man was busy, but as she insisted on seeing him she was allowed to enter. She had a bundle of manuscript in her hand, and she begged the editor to read ft at once. Oddly enough, he consented. It_was a story. It was a story about a young woman writer who purchased a typewriting ma- chine on the installment plan. All went Well till the final payment of £1 was due. She hadn't the money and couldn't get it. Twice ‘the people who sold the machine gave her additional time. At her wit's end, the poor girl begged him to wait just two penre: Shs Eacshs Ae something to read, she wheedle: im a litth dh offered to wait. See] So she sat down at the machine and rat- tled off a pathetic story of her own strug- gles with fate and of her fruitless efforts to raise money to pay for the typewriter. When she finished she put on her bonnet and went to a newspaper office, sold the story and brcught back the money in time to save the machine. It was a prettily told story and a pathetic one. “By jove,” sald the editor, as he finished reading it. “I always said you could do fiction, but you never would. Come around next week, and I'll let you know whether we'll publish it. The girl hesitated. “If you plea: sir, " asked the editor, in surprise. said the girl, “you see, the man Who came after the typewriter is waiting for the money. she said, “won't you —o+—__ He Could Cook. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A Lewiston man has been complain- ing lately that bis wife does not pay enough attertion to cooking “for tomor- At such times h!s wife h ‘Why don't ecok yourself? last time she said this was at supppr tim Monday night. He didn't answer, but after supper he filled the cook stove with wood, took off Ms coat and started In. He got cook book down and began at t om- rt, and made two p: of dough- batches of biscuit, mola: gin- gerbread, hasty pudding to fry for break- fast, cookies, tar custard p!es, boiled hash, and in half | perior weight Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Re THE BL (EFISH BRIGADE. What Happens When the Blues Make a Charge Upon the Menhaden. From the New York Sun. “When menhaden or herring are driven up on the beach hy bluefish, 2s they often are so that they can be carried off by the cart lord,” said a fisherman, “there is very seldom found amcng them one of their pursuers; and if one ts found it is likely to be a fish that is diseased or that has been burt in some way. The bluefish follows to the very verge of the water, but there it stops, and it is so powerful and alert a swimmer that, close as it fs, it still eastly keeps clear of the land. The menhaden and herring are no mean swimmers; they could come as close and keep off the shore as easily as the bluefish do, but not when the bluefish are after them. Then they are like men pursued to the edge of a precipice: it 1s almost certain death to jump, but they must do that or turn and take the chances of breaking through the pursuing line. “When the blucfish—there may be three or four thousand of them together—sight a | school of menhaden they go for it like a brigade of heavy cavalry,cutting and slash- ing, snapping and biting, right and left. The menhaden are simply overborne by su- and there is nothing for them to do brt flee. If they are driven ward the shore, the land is to them what | the precipice would be to the mau; the must take it or they must turn and try to fight their way through. Many do turn anc rn red with dishes of all kinds. His wife went out into the Kitchen and dropped speechless nto a/ chair. At half-past 11 that night he wash- ed the last dish and clo: -filled with food well with some and went to bed. The t noon his wife hand- ed him a bill of $7.49, which she said wa the amount of raw material he had used the night before. “Are you go'ng to cook ed the dumb waiter very as much as that every day?" she asked. -2e+— Luck Will Torn, From the Chicago Recon. Little sprinkles — April's face is smile and pout: Clouds wilt break in merry twivkles When the sun shines out Do give up for fast one shower— th is grown on doubt; An cess is bound to Hower When the sun shines out “Heaven Overarches ove rare th and se sue bitrerns ven ove) ‘ou and Little while ead we sod—where 1) If so tomorrow sav ~CHRISTINA ROSETTL os Delightfal Blundering. From Blackwood's Magazine. A little boy in the course of his reading lesson came to the word “widow,” and called it “window,” a word more familiar to him. The teacher, who was acting as examiner, wishing n, corrected the blunder, and then, to improve the occasion, put the quest “What is the difference between ‘wido and ‘window?’ The boy's answer began, You can see through a window, but—" and then stopped. The amusement plainly visy ible on the teacher's face prevented this miniature Sam Weller from completing the contrast. Now, the blunder here, so ar as it was a blunder, was entirely due to the teache: He did not mean to impress on his pupils the transparency of a window as contr: with a widow, but the differe between the two wor From Judge. Excited Traveler—“Can I catch o'clock express for Buffalo?” Railroad Official—That depends upon how fast you can run. It started thirteen min- utes ag: the 4 | the boat ra. | {| f ] | | a} try to swim under or over or around the | savage bluefixh, and some escape in this | way, and ne are shapped up, and some are maimed and then cast ashore; and many of them, crowding together, are so clesely pressed that they are practically | fcrced ashore. = metimes fish that are not cast up very far flop down into the water axain; a high wave may s ree. A fish thus liber- y find its fins so damaged that it wim, and it is cast up again; w ened by Its rough exp: ce it may fall a prey to some of the bluefish yet lingering | off shore; !t may escape.” +0 PICKINGS FROM LONDON PUNCH. A Romance of the River. se Edwin—"“What colors shall e, Miss Angelina?” Angelina (uncertain as to Edwin's univ: sity)—‘Need you ask? True blue, of course. Edwin (who recelved his education at Dur- ham University, enthuslastically clasping Angelina in his arms)—“Darling! I felt cer- tain that you would heap coals of fire on my head for asking such a question.” (But, as a matter of fact, he heaped the coals on hers when the time came for settle- ments, being a large pit proprietor.) you wear at The Bare Idea. Mr. Gledstone of Streatham says England won't | beat ‘The Scotch till, at foot ball, they play with bare feet! Fancy champion cups won, not strength, pluck aod skill by, But by every’ foothailer becoming a ‘“Trilby Ab! poor Mré. Grundy! ‘The motion must sk QW. Baa name for this game: Bocker: Dollars and Sense; Or, The Doom of the Matinee He legislature of Ojo. h: dding women to wear lar Ry Hot in all things be wort Our laws and our modes to Americantze; ix a point on whieh thousands would thank P's for taking a tip from the Yank re'a the male victim whoever hath sat, Vnseelng, behind a bug inee bat,” . Who wili not rejoice when our government collars, For évery sich nuisance, a fine of ten dollars? (SX. B.—Ths poor managers’ lives will be Hades? ‘The fine shoald be paid by the selfish ne ladies, A man might ax well be as blind as a bat, As sit in the rear of a matinee hat ‘And it wakes an old theater-goer to sth, To think that his lot is wot cast in Obto. —— An Explanation. Ont From the Atlanta Canstitation. The reason there's so little hay in the country is because we have to make it while the sun shines, and some people can’t stand hot weather. ~~ Cause and Effect From the Boston Transcript. Fogg says it is all nonsense to say that lightring never strikes twice in the same | place. His grocer's scales, he asserts, show | the effects of at least half a dozen light- nirngs. eee —____ Pride and Prejudice. From the Indianapolis Journal. “I'd be ashamed to go around begging,” said the prosperous citizen. “Pride's a funny thing, ain't it?” answer- ed Mr. Everett Wrest. “Here you are, too proud to beg, and here I am, too proud to | work. Takes all sorts to make a world, I guess.” al warwB ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder METEORS MADE HARMLESS. We Owe Our Immunity to Our Atmos- phere, Which Serves as a Shicid. From the Spectator. We owe our immunity to our atmosphere, which serves as a bullet-proof cuirass fc the world. When a meteor enters the at- mosphere, the friction produced by its gi- gantic speed makes it fash up like the a row of Acestes, only more so. The ingeni- ous experiments of Lord Kelvin have shown that the heat thus produced, just as a brake showers sparks from the carriage wheel, or a iucifer match lights on the box, is sulficient to consume the meteor as {f it were suddenly cast into a furnace heated to three or four million degrees. Obviously the smaller meteors are utterly consumed before they have penetrated far into the atmosphere, which their fate has shown to rise to a height of about 120 miles. Only a very large one can descend, as that of Madrid is said to have done, to within twenty miles of the earth before be- ing burst by the expansion due to heat and by Lhe resistance of the air. The fact that fragments do occasionally reach the earth is the best proof of the great size of some of the meteors that we encounter. If it were not for the “blessed air,” the expl sion of them all, with the accom fervent heat, would take place in our It is safe to say that such a state of would render our great towns uninha able. In London we are sometimes inclined to gird at the atmosphere, with its s: and its fog and its east wind. But of us can tell how often it h from a terrible and invisible f as Mark Twain has it, “shot If we are more inclined to re mo: ervices in future meteor not have exploded in vain, — eee _ As a Food Conveye Amos J. Cummings in Twe ary Cookin: 1 fork in an uee a fork A word as to th I nev olden days. in conveytr n those knif. days + 4, the use of as forks were ronged affairs, not wider than your little finger. I saw an old-timer other day. He was enjoying a meal in a restaurant in Washington. He wax Sen- ator Allen of Nebraska. He used the knife with exquisite grace. ed at him and saw the rare tidb pearin: a the blade, the old fe and I tackled my meal ng came ov in the same I found out that I lac the experience of youth. I tackled an egg fried on one side. It was a little greasy, and as 1 was about to snap it from tae point of the knife it slid toward the han ou my shirt front, handle the je and landed I had lost my ability to blade properly. Senator Allen would have done much better,as he evident- ly was not out of prac: os Privileged. From the Chicago Tribune. “Old Skadds ought to know to pronounce it “kewpon,” “Young man, when you are able to clip as many of them as old Skadés does you will find you can call it ‘kewpon’ and move in the highest literary and social circles.” better than tee A Sign That Fails Not. From Puck. Mrs. Von Blumer—‘Dear, what does it mean when you get a notice from the bank th t your account is overdr Von Blumer—“In the case of a man, it means that he is married.” said the Hitle boy, “Johnny “h a mugwump that I don’t want to sle A migwump “Yes, mamma. Didn't you tell me that a mugwump we ne on who would not take ei that’s the way with Johnn, nts to sicep in the middie of the bec o- British Guiana’s Dwarf Indians. The Indiars of h Guiana, ing to a writer in the Ninetee are not far removed from the ages in the depths of the dark A root calied the covassa is th food. It is prepared for use b on a plece of timber studded pebbles. along with a breech clout, men are in the height of fashion simple frirge. Though dwarfs well made and sturdy, make capital boat- men and ‘re splendid swimmers. All real work is done by women. with a they are From Harper's Bazar. A THEATRICAL PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION. a Le um