Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1897, Page 23

ee USES OF PROFANITY ‘WHERE THEY GET THEM. Some Seerets “of the Curio Business Revealed. CUBA AND EUROPE) “™™="™™="or"™=== [MODERNIZED CASTLES] RANDOM VERSE [SOME WONDERFUL CLOCKS| om=ramruame [)cpe QP pROrANIT\ CASTLES CUBA AND EUROPE Less of From the Philadelphia Times. Strength. From the New York Post. “For a long time when I first went into Midas tecathee hike at ae sm ‘The Marvels of Astronomical and Ohrono- _— ‘The Great Salt Lake is two feet lower to- Ridiculous 1 ity of Man in De- The curious windwecmes searching through the Ingen What Might Follow Interference by | ,,"For a tons time when 1 first went into on the Ehine, own we : metric Mechanism, iowa ama mngpoghcdieriorgernd fs the United States. tatied. dnd weouke Sexe tae eee well) pictiog soens toe ks sta servers it is rapidly changing its chief J oe —— ——— doing ‘Saementes That the # We Bl aenmacacgrns a St. Petersburg Has a Timepiece With | characteristic and turning into an iniand not buy my shells was because I knew noth- Used to Undergo im Feudal hd cars eel Minety-Five Faces and Berne One | 53 of fresh water. Every fall the lake is OPEN-AIR LIFE INDUCES THE HABIT OPEAN SYSTEM THREATENED | mz abou tnem myself. I went to a pray ant oily oon cals several feet ‘ower than in the spring, but {HE EUR fessor and-studied up the subject. I always Times, Be’s ‘neath the wea! ‘With Famous Automata. this year the waters have subsided to such had a natural turn for it, and after two ae witha ¥ years I opened this shop and succeeded. Eee tray; their fragile stock an extent that many of the bathing pavil- icns and boat houses are left high and dry Coll 8B. : : : lege Boating Couldn't Get On An English View of the Situation } trom the beginning. It was because I wa8| prom the New York ‘Times. Cae: fee 0, pitecstwer shock A eo, upon the + beg x ae ainaye of 4 interested myself, and so could make my| However badly the men fared in the good : i Of course, every Briton has heard st one | I iat i Strerpenghen dampen oa Without It. and Its Critical Features. customers feel an interest. I have been in/ ola days when these castles were used, the. ae a ae the alr time or other of the famous clock tower | derground outlet, no explorer has yet the curio business for twenty years. ecrdition of women must have been a hun- | aM { ‘Hoabiag everywhere, adjoining the houses of parliament.~ No | been foftunate enough to discover any. It aaa “Where do I get my goods? I pick them —_ 3 is supposed, however, that outlets exist and ee = oseate toe areca: There is a lady in| red times worse—not of the women only | Like many a — doubt he imagines it to be a very fine iuoreuelic ae soca a Scuth Dakota who trades with the Indians | who lived in the little farmers’ huts that 1403 water tus cons ee ‘snperceived— structure, and, as a matter of fact, it is re- pen Ae x si —— u sire QUEER FRENCH OATHS PRIDE OF THE SPANIARDS | cca procures me evare litle oft oat-ot disappeared centuries ago; they were worse | Of Sith amd sablen pa ee a ce a ve ei A aon egy re gorge Ta heather Sree fo = aE ae off than the cattle they tended; but of the | And sposa and the girls, their cloaks achieved, dca7ga bot aisess Gare niany en voe aree anal ers ight not ve. ere i ‘comfortab! women who had the best of it, who were : the wives of the knights and mistresses of the castles. Just imagine the Hudson, my dear madam, dotted with castles, a mile or t two apart, on both banks, from Yonkers to gata tad 2 Albany; every castle on the top of a crag, | ThG,7ine looks. ffc8y om the tron ig The leaves’ all curling, and every owner of a castle at war with all | And every breeze tha’ zee rodely by On the northern slopes of the lake’s shores and down the western border are number- less springs which have always run pure brine into the inland sea. These springs evidently come through immense rocks of salt in the earth, and by washing through them they meke the spring water intensely briny by the time it reaches the surface. can who also gets me antique things. My best shells mostly come from Singapore, Madagascar and the islands in the Indian ccean. Sometimes when not expecting it I get hold of something very rare, that was flung in hastily with the rest by some shell gatherer, ignorant of the value of the specimen. And the same way with beetles ciocks in existence today, perhaps not in size, but certainly in their skiliful mech- anism. The most wonderful clock in the world is exhibited in St. Petersburg. Its magnifi- cerce may be imagined from the fact of From the London Spectator. Our countrymen are wrong in thinking that war between Spain and America will mot concern them, that, in fact, they can sit in their usual style looking on as at a mest interesting play. It will concern them From the Chicago Inter-Ocean »_That Americans and English should swear is inevitable. Our Anglo-Saxon race is no- toriously the most profane on earth; it has been so ever since the days of its founda- tion by the fusion of the Saxons with their this colossal timepiece having no fewer | There have been signs of a change in these Norman conquerors. It is recorded that the & good deal, Not to mention the immediate | and butterflies. There is one specimen in| the others, and yourself mistress of one of | S¢t# them to whit than ninety-five faces. It indicates simul- new in pag ae oe gore dyed Saxons were astonished at the strength and tse which” will occur in the price of | Brazil that terre erp aoe Sector the castles. You have plenty of silver ware, | the old spout, hanzing by # single nail, tareously the time of day ut thirty different | M8V cena they poured up appeared fresher. | profuseness of Norman profanity, tut that wheat, there will be, as we are the sea| Only once in s thousan Other day I found | most likely, if your husband is a good fight. Pe Ee, spots on the earth's surface, besides the | They have row become partly choked up| they proceeded to add it oe than wonsialaky. Power, most dangerous and difficult ques-| one in what I, at first glance, had decided | er, and no dearth of heavy old hand-made ‘That threats doth utter. movement of the earth around the sun, the tions to be faced, of neutrality, of search, of privateering, and of the supply of un- licensed speculators of the munitions pf war. It is not quite unimportant to us that Spain should be solvent, for her insolvency will involve a “grand crash” in banking gir- cles in Paris; while anarchy in Spain, either with rocks or salt, and they no long- er give the same supply of salt water as they did years ago. In several other places —notably on East Antelope, within fifteen feet of the brimming lake basin—there are many fresh water springs that gush up at seasons of the year and pour into the narnea lake. These fresh water springs have be-| 84 bee sedi rp aeeect anges ger come larger and more powerful since the} ime © zabeth’s jolly reign. It was salt water springs became clogged up, and! during that period of history, perhaps, that it is supposed the underground reservoir} men and women took to swearing by single of water, diverted from its usual course, is| details of the body of the crucified Christ. Cee ae cen ieate OntsE TREOURLT Wrouehs, RADDA gabe Genity bear, alin the springs where no salt rocks exist. If this theory is correct the Great Salt/ fcot, were made the oaths that are now to Lake will gradually turn to fresh water,} be considered characteristic of the Eliz and the surface will continue to fall until abethan age. The words were prefaced by the possessive "s—as ‘sblood, 'sdeath, ‘snails was a very ordinary collection. “I sometimes think,” he went on, “that the love of this kind of thing makes a bend between people that are otherwise strangers. Men come in toward dark, look- ing around at the things, and the first thing I know they are telling me their private business, or their history, = —— a juent the sho which might be a result of submission to eae eae eee demands from Washington, would throw friend. One evening after the lights were the whole European system into confusion, | lit, when such customer was here, a erhaps wak> most danger ambitions | Young woman, rather shabbily dressed, Dati oa nae ae ee phate: bivens | came in and began sorting over the shells, She made some remarks about a speci- she still regards as her reversionary estate. men that struck her fancy, and 4 gentle- We are not sure either that in the present | men that struck her fancy, and 4 gentle By the sort of seein wien ig avoiding war | Her. She talked so well about natural his- avoids differences of opinion, the very fact | SY and seemed so thoroughly acquainted furniture. The slits of windows are so small that curtains would be of no use; and, anyhow, as there is no glass, the rain would soon ruin them. You nna that the cola stone floors make your joints stir, and you spread some rushes on them. Your sup- ply of meat and other eatapies depenas upon the success of his iorusmp's raias. You have no woman to cssociate with but your boorish servants. ‘Chere is one book in the nouse, a prayer book, but you are noc able to read it uniess you are one of the ad- vanced women of the time. You wouid go out? ‘hen you must first climb uown tne crag by a path that is barely passabie, at the risk ot being captured by a neighvor. You have a beautitui view, &nd some tine afternoon you go up in the highest tower to phases of the moon, the signs of the zudiac, the passage over the meridian of more than fifty stars of the northern hemisphere, and the date according to the Gregorian, Greek, Mussuiman and Hebrew calendars. The works took two years to put together after the clock had been sent in detached pieces from Switzerland to Russia. A certain watchmaker constructed a clock whose mechanism represenis, every fifteen minutes, all the activities of a min- iature railway station. The telegraph cper- ater sends a dispatch, the doors of the sta- ticn open, the stationmaster and his assist- ant appear on the steps, the clerks open the windows and distribute the tickets: several travelers rush toward the train th comes in at full speed. In short, until the without loss of time. So much for the be- sinning. Chaucer leaves the declaration that In his time swearing was practiced by every one, high or low, both sexes alike. Numberless records show that the custom ‘The summer birds have left their breezy haunt Among our branches, And moved upon their reguler annual jaunt” ‘To warmel ranches. . Hinge heaps of coal defile the sidewalk way, ‘we, counfound ’em, Mgt o'er thelr slippery heights a path essay, OF travel round ’e1 And many bills thrust in their leech-like length, With ite items fearful, re the cabahened corresponding strength ‘Is never near fal And white hats fade Iike flakes of falling snow In spring's warm weather, And fashion’s votaries take another bow, Or higher feather. the winter and spring freshets from the mountains fill it again. This additional traig has gone, the usual stir of such sta-| water will add no sele ty thew seay but | 1" abbreviation for God's blood, God's ith it that the old gentleman was very | Wétch a little passage at arms on the plain. | ‘The biting alrs the shrinking flesh appall tions is canatty, reproduced. mare Steen ot has been | death, God's nails. “God's wounds” was fib Ge OO OS) Ms ee a eas Slip werner Oue | re rereecartasal nee yous HERTS TGe tere | ad ne ee proach of fall, As the train leaves, each automaton re-| well known for many years that the Great | amalgamated into Zounds! an exclamation turbing effect, dividing as it will the sym- that he judged she was an English woman. | terest in, for your husband is in the Peecis Hee PI , turns to its place, and for a quarter of an) Sait Lake is fresher in the early spring | still preserved in the tank melodrama and The dy naetie tears populations, and rousing | Gnce or twice she came, after that, when | ‘ick of. the fight. He and lis men have —B.P, SHILLABER. | hour everything is peaceful. The clock’s| than in the summer, and the phenomenon sagieey 7 : the dynastic fears which wake whenever = [ito cana te te inaan tace fae not | ¢l@shed with bir Adolphus and his men, se ee Ne ee dimensions are not known, but it Js sald to | is probably caused by the addition of great | * Certain stilted species of so-called liter- republic s itself strong for actual con- | see her for some time, dutil one das ghe| 2nd your husband may come home laden have had six years’ labor expended upon it. fi ith gunpowder barrels lying about | quantities of water from the snows. aed | ature. The ejaculation nowadays is put inte came and asked me to let her have some | With plunder, or he may come home on 2 ee ee ee Another remarkable clock is that made | Streams of the mountaine, shooting Is not altogether a safe practice. | Chote “ta waist tor toler eae ene | board: Bat you are used to-such things Those engaged | the mouth of the villain as the xpression Love is'a raging and tumultuous ocean, by Villingen, the clockmaker of the Black | in manufacturing salt on the lake say that | of his chagrin at she first indveatnn of ten War is Easy. was in need, but would for them as | ¥0U go into your chamber and kneel betore | “Where waves, in thousand forms, leap fast and Forest. Germany. It shows the seconds, | jt takes six gallons of water to make one| approach of hie dente, 41 downfall; its use The chances of such a collision d soon as she could. Of course, I let hér | {He sione crucitix, where you spend a great Friendsitp, a mountain lake, where no commotion | Minutes, quarter hours, hours, days, weeks, | gation of sale in the cummee cade one is accompanied with gesture and stage Ones e (cedars te aa ane no we | Rave them, and told her to come to me if deal of the ime. ap ee ‘Breaks ‘the bine image of the soleme sk" months, seasons, years eno eepeers that jn early spring it Often takes seven | business indicative of frizhtened « nfusion, ar, gr 1 ‘ e s ear - t u me . aties ever needed fNer ‘Afterward she a the last second of the y and even eight gallons to make the sa: It is not to be inferred from the om can perceive the’chances are not in favor | brought me the shells, saying that she ed ee ee Se Love darts from heaven like lightning—Friendship sides a host, ot Bs pe caaicey) ge0- quantity of aa : ; : of their indulgenc profanity hat our if Ye 7 '- ee] a ical ans istoric: ‘acts. ere are three large streams emptying] British an Stors wer ungodl opie, = Lee ask pen re ee me es aires "the next time | Siord is safe, and there will be fresh meat A slowly breaking dawn, o'er 1M and plain. S pnerecisGavccletrated Sciocki tower! at inte the Great Galt Lake-the Bear, Weber | Their continental me cexbern, weibe panes indices Ib ET ee the old gentleman came in I showed them | f£,4 fortnight. Teprlendahip gives all or wale Toe eee Meeks | Berne, in. Switzerland. ‘The approach of | and Jordan vest hae they make no ap-| not addicted to the habit’ of consigning na si be — it. They aa mers. is Taner ae view of pieTaigaE Ae oe Friendship gives TOF EMANUEL Giiuer, | the hour is announced by the crowing of preciable difference in the saltiness of the| things to the realm of eve «gin with, by the oppressions in Cuba, ot eee Z le industry was broug! me to me by Which they see far more than we do, and ee Sar rae tmetis hejeaid age Rhey, sting blazes, and certainly not possessing an objurgative vocabulary as rich and varied as that of the English, used the name of the Almighty with the utmost familiarity. So do they to this day, in fact. French a coc The End of the Way, Frank Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution. Where the rongh road turns there’s a qalley sweet— Where the skies are starred and ft We'll forget the thorns and the DOOM heat rest in the roses there. a cock. At the same time may be seen at the very top of the tower a man clad in a ceat of mail striking the hours with his sword on a large bell. As the hours are striking a troupe of bears make their ap- pearance and parade round the tower, then make their exit. Long strings of car- contrast this morning when a boatman in biue cap and wooden shoes was rowing me up the river—not up the Khine, but up the Moselle, which tlows into the Rhine here; but it answers the same purpose. Haif a mile up the Moselle, on a moderately high peak of rock, stands one of the oid castles. lake, except early in the spring, when they carry the meiting snows of the mountains down to the lake. So long as the under ground springs of salt continued to pour their brine into the lake it required an immense volume of fresh water to neutral- ize their effect. are not bad. She seems a nice young lady, and you send her the money.’ “I told him that I did not know her ad- dress, and he fumed about it, and said that I should have asked her, for may be she was in real need. I kept a look out for her on the street after that, and one Sunday, which are now admitted to be very’ bad, the keynote of the Weyler policy being that the “pacificos"—that is, the population which declines to tight-must be ruined, lest the insurgents should utilize their re. scurces. They have consequently been ex- irom their estate and farm Germ: a riages draw up every hour for the occu- i : . ¢ Great Salt Lake is seventy miles long] Is it to be regarded as a sacrilege? No, e ‘There is nothing ruinous about_it; it has | And the dark of the drea: , Weary nigat pants to witness this interesting spectacle. and fifty miles across in its widest part, and] When the German lady exclaims: “Herr driven into the towns, where they h paca five Wosks later, 1 caw shericoming been put in thorough repair. Not only glass | Will be lost at last in the morning light, 4A gigantic clock. made of cycle parts.was | jt has an area of 2,000 square miles.” An-| Gott”—«sir (ind <ghis ‘eacaben ‘Gen ivewans means of subsistence. A policy like that | ut,° vell and tried to avold me. I felt a | in the windows, but striped canvas uwn- | wire sho rough road turns. there's a haven blest | SHOWH at a recent exhibition neld in Paris, | {tS 8" are change that has taken place | er'ce. Nor does the Frenchman wang ne Would produce horrible scenes, even if the | (nick vell and. forcing myself upon her, | P&S over some of them and rows of potted | “yireg hs Pugh road turns, ther The hour figures are composed of brightly | in the lake is the gradual upheaval of the 3 ” army were English or German or Ameri. {| flowers on every broad window sill can, and Cuba is oceupied by a Spanish which, from mismanagement, is compelied when outside Havana to main- tain itself, feed itself, and pay itself as a guerilla army would. ‘We find it difficult to believe that the American government— which, recollect, is a very haughty gov ernment, and quite believes itself the strongest in the world—will recede in any way from its declarations, which are that Cuba must be pacified at once, and that if it is not pacitied public feeling in America will compel intervention. ne denies that Gen. Woodford in his cations with the Duke of Tetuan ed this as a fact, though he may have disclaimed any wish to use it as a menace. Yet of the pacification there is little pros- pect. Chances of Autonomy. , The fighting section of the Cubans have rejected the autonomy offered them by the ‘try, the autonomists give Spain no active help because uncertain what autonomy will mean, and real autonomy it is noi in the power of Senor Sagasta to be- stow. If Spain is not to be driven into bankruptcy, she must retain the power of taxing Cuba to relieve Spanish finance, and no honest plan of autonomy is consistent with that taxation. Nor—and this is the crux of the whole situation—do we feel sure that the government of the queen re- gent anxiously desires to avoid war. If the new ministry is convinced that the Cubans Will not yield, its best road out of an im- bessibie situation might be war, for which, according to American accounts, it has just provided a pretext by threatening, if the filibusters are not stopped, to search all American ships on their way to Cuba. The Americans have fought over that claim be- fore, and will, we may rest assured, fight again before it is allowed. Victory in war would of course end the Spanish difficulties, while defeat would allow the government ‘There are Sir Isanc Holden’s She was well-nigh penniless.” idols, scepters, ——- e+ —_____ BREAD AS A DAILY DIET. Long Life. The death at the age of ninety of Sir Isaac Holden, a famous inventor, and al- m:ost up to the day of his death one of the hardest working members of the English parliament, has given rise to an interest- ing discussion in the English papers. It is claimed that the secret of Sir Isaac Holden’s health and longevity was choice af food. looked so sad and careworn that I followed her and made excuse that I want- ed to tell her about the shells. they, sold? she exclaimed, ‘how kind you are,’ and tears came to her eyes. “The upshot of it was that the gentleman got her a good position to teach botany and conchology in a private school. She had no friends in New York, was a southern woman, whose relatives were not such that she could appeal to them. She told me, later, that the meal she had that Sunday I met her coming out of the restaurant was the first hot food she had tasted for four ‘Oh! Are quaint pipes and curious musical instruments from the east in the little shop. There is the weird, crooked hern of an African beast, used by Savage tribes as a clarion call in time of war, there are feeding troughs from Alas- Ka, made of wood and tattooed with red and blue hieroglyphics, and there is a sin- gular-looking Indian trunk, made of buck- skin and stitched and dyed curiously. Theory and His his The main article of his belief was the avoidance of predominantly starchy food. The fundamental idea of this doctrine, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch, i is that starchy food 1s mainly digested, and along some of the exposed edges of the cliff. Statues in nooks cut in the ruck and iron dogs and lions looking ready to growl. No precipitous paths, but a smooth gravel walk with winding stone steps here and there wherever needed, guarded by an iron rail on each side. While we were passing, mak- jug siow progress against the strong cvur- rent, a man in bright livery came down the steps carrying a bicycle—down to the read that skirts the river—and stood there wait- ing. A few moments later a iady appeared at the castle gate, not on a milk-white steed, but in blue bloomers; tripped lightly down the steps, took the wheel from her groom, mounted it and rode away. f hope she was going to the dressmaker’s to buy a skcrt. Coblentz has the advantage of being vis- ited by fewer tourists than the other large Rhenish towns. The inhabitants may not consider this an advantage, but the leis- urely traveler sees the difference and en- joys it. This is not because it is unattrast- ive, for it is a beautiful place, full of in- teresting things to see. It is largely because the modern tourist “does” the Rhine with a rush, and Cobientz is neither a starting nor a stopping point. Start the tourist from Paris, and if he is going to “do” Switzer- land, he takes the express over to Cologne, where he spends the night, and takes the steamboat up the river to Bingen or May- ence in tha morning, after which he con- siders the Rhine one of his old camping grounds, and has at least a shadowy basis for many a good anecdote of “when I was going up the Rhine.” Or if he is bound for northern Germany he strikes first for Mayence or Bingen, and takes the boat down to Cologne. In either case he is gen- erally in too much of a hurry to stop at way Stations. val Labor d Professions. From the Philadelphia Times. And the sen-winds sing weet songs of rest ‘Over the dreamless tide. Where the tempests fade from a silent shore And the sails are furled forevermore. © rest in the beautiful valley And rest in the haven stili, What though the stamms gn the brave Ships beat— Though the thorns:are keen to kill? Let us dream that the dark of the ‘dreary night Will be lost at last in the morning light. ++ sweet, Grandiather. How broad and deep‘was’the fireplace old Aud the great hearthstohe how wide! There was always room for the old man’s chatr By the cozy chimney sie, And all the children. that cared to crowd At his knee In thd /evening tide. waa for all of the homeless os Me migi ash “at ease fhe rateful warmt And sun in the cheerful glow, Z a For grandfather's heart wAs as wide and w: As the old fireplace, I know, oe: And he always, at bis well-spread board Just room for another chatr; ft. fap. another pene There was always Cn the pillow of fe case: Jace for anpther name "In h ‘his. trustful morning Beer Was always crowded jyoi et “your jontling throngs! Seecoreas a nd tha “s er jrarm and wide, 108 FELLOWS BACON, + And the. wal; sees The Unsolvable Mystery. "Tis idle! We exhaust and squander Agte glittering infne of thought in vain; All-batiied reason cannot wander Beyond her chain. The flood of life runs dark—dark clouds elake lampless night around its shore: dead, where are they? In thelr shroude— fan ki knows no more. as . No. more, io more—with aching brow, And restless heart, and burning braio, plated cranks. All the smaller wheeis re- volve by means of gear chains, but this was only for attraction. The clock kept excellent time, and struck hours, half and quarter hours, the real mechanism being: concealed in the base. At the time of the coronation of the Et press of Russia at Moscow in 1724 she was presented with a watch as wonderful in’ every particular as the famous Strasburg clock. On the opposite side of the time- keeping part there was an exact counter- part of the holy sepulcher, with a carved frags of the Roman guard, the scene being viewed through the glass in the case. Upon opening the case the imitation stones would roll away from thé-mouth of the miniature sepulcher, the guard knell, angels appear at opposite sides of the opening, and at this time the music would begin to play, in soft, Sweet strains, the Easter songs so well known to all’ Russians. The watch only weighed seven ounces. The maker of this wonderful piece of mechanism is said to have worked upon it almost uninterrupt- edly for a period of nine years, Ruskin on the Bicycle. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Ruskin’s views of the bicycle were ex- Pressed several years ago in a letter pub- lished, which has recently been brought to public attention, and contains the follow- ing: “I nct only object, but am quite prepared to spend all my best ‘bad language’ in re- probation of bi-, tri- and 4-, 5-, 6- or 7- cycles and every other contrivance and in- vention for superseding human feet on God’s ground. “To walk, to run, to leap and to dance are the virtues of the human body; and neither to stride on stilts, wriggle on wheels nor dangle on ropes, and nothing in the training of the human mind with the body SOME WONDERFUL CLOCKS GREAT SALT LAKE. Clogging of the | Salt. Rocks Causes a bottom. In recent years its greatest depth has not exceeded forty feet, while the av- erage depth is only from twelve to twenty. Fifty years ago the bottom could not be sounded in places, and lines a hundred feet long failed to strike bottom. Sp The Queen Kept Her Word, From the St. James’ Budget. A picturesque story is that which comes from Biarritz, and concerns itself with the Queen of Servia and her jewels. There are various versions of this story afloat; but, though they differ in detail, they all agree as to the main facts. It seems that while staying at Biarritz the queen one day miss- ed a valuable portion of her jewels. Ac- cording to one account, it was a parure of diamonds; according to another, merely an exceedingly valuable ring. Whether the jewel or jewels were stolen, or whether they were merely lost, also appears to be a matter of some doubt. Be that as it may, the fact is certain that a few days later an advertisement appeared in the local papers to the effect that, if the jewelry were re- turned to the queen, she would present it to the poor of Biarritz. Two days after- ward she received her lost or stolen dia- mends by post, accompanied by a sheet of coarse paper, on which was scrawled in printed characters, “I shall be curious to see if a queen can keep her word.” The queen did keep Ler word and presented the restored trinkets to the Sisters of Charity, who immediately organized a lottery, which was eagerly subscribed to by the vis- itors and residents of Biarritz, and the treasure was won by a poor little seam- stress, ——__+e-+—_____ Productive Power of United States. M. G. Munhail in North American Review. It appears that, as regards quantity, declares that God knows that the picture is beautiful. Such linguistic us are sim- ply habits that do not happen to oppose national prejudice. The name is so com- monly used in the romance languages that their ordinary farewell is a committal to divine protection. “Adios,” sx ays the Span- jard, in parting for a Short separation; “To God" is th irect translation. Italians lave it “Addio,” and the French “Adieu,” adopted into English, is used a million times a day without thought of the senti- ment and beauty of its significance. The French are subject to frequent spasms of indignation, and of these they readily relieve themselves through the medium of expressions which strike the English speaker as most hopeles: unfit for the purpose. One of the old English poets, incidertally expressing his nation’s well-known opinion of French valor and dignity, has left the following stanza: "Tis strange the French prove, When they take to aspersing, So inferior to us in the science of cursing Kick a Frenchman downstairs— How absurdly he swears, And _hew odd ‘tis to hear him, When beat to a jelly, Roar out in 2 passion: “Blue Death!” and “Blue Belly?” “Morbieu! and “Ventrebleu!” were the expletives which the old rhymester trans- lated literally. They shouid not be trans- lated; it is an injustice. The weight of “blue” in these words, and “sacrebleu” and “corbleu,” seems to be known and knowa- ble only to the French themselves. Others should not make French profanity ridicu- lous by trying to find it out by means of tranclation. They Adopt Ours, National “curs” words might make an interesting bit of study, put it could not very well be carried on tm this country. There is a reason. will ever supersede the appointed God’s Riaihcgtecerigemary to give up Cuba without affronting the not in the first stomach, but in the intes- The tendency of young men in this coun- eee es the Where, the How, way of slow walking and hard working.” | three Americans now export as much as i bagarp anon paeeee iis ‘anoestral Spanish idea of honor, and so, as the Times’ rotessi ————+e-. five did twenty years ago, which suffices s of blasphemy in favor of the Ameri- ecrrespondent affirms, endangering tho | U®€S, and that such food is for that reason | try to embark in the learned professions And all philosophy, all faith, monarchy itself. We believe his account of Spanish pride, strong as it is, is strictly hin the truth, and he might have added that this pride is all the more irritable just mcre difficult of digestion, and, therefore, less healthy. Rice, though predominantly starchy, is not so difficult of digestion, but the general rule remains. The chief "Alt earthly, all celestial lore, Have but one voice, which oniy saith, End dore! jure—a —JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN. eee. — with no especial aptitude for anything ex- cept avoiding manual labor, is constantly on the increase. It is greatly to be de- Mrs. Browning’s Death. The brief story of Mrs. Browning’s death is told by her husband, as follows: to show how groundless are the predic- tions of some writers who tell us that as Population increases so the surplus pro- can system just as soon as attention and practice will enable him to effect the change. Immigrants who cannot speak or understand a word else of English can eee areata erent The Os : “There were symptoms that alarmed me; | ducts of exportation must diminish. In the | damn each other most creditably. It is to now because of the prevailing discontent. | food used daily by all of us te bread evitable result. The trouble with these November. T called the maid and sent for the doctor. | last twenty years population has risen| be added thet the lower classes of them Spanish Taxes. Bivad Comtataiat 06 ta BY Yer cect Gf atancty | Tice acm ta that cuay ao not onAaestanh ‘The wild November comes at last FWell yon ane qmoposed to bathe her feet, | from 45,000,000 to. 71,000,000 souls.an in-| Quickly add to this knowledge a list of There exists in Spain, as we understana | }f,t = eens coon mani eatatchy, the dignity of marual labor. They do not Beneath a vel of ret ‘Well, you are determined to make an ex- | Tease of 58 per cent, and at the same time terms expressive of the disgusting and the the weight of exports has risen 175 per obscene. the situation, a definite sentiment of re- Spect for the queen regent, whose proud realize that honors and fortune may be more readily realized outside of these so- ‘The night wind blows its folds aside— eminently so. Her face is full of pain, aggerated case of it!’ Then came what my One writer insists that bread, instead of cent—that is, three times as fast as popu. | _EVerybody has seen those fellows who are called learned professions than in them, poart Min, Keep ill I see her again, and | lation. po inthe presence of ladles’ Suck fais ses and independent character and devotion to pees pace te ee ae eee arate that Pitlia tyne tiaat nanematle to cawite ‘The lateét of 1 pee races seoltakes longer—the most perfect expression of her | The quantities of food yearly exported | im the presence of ladies. her son's interests please the people; and Such feliows are nothing more nor less than the victims of brains trained to translate certain casual a hammer or to hold a plow as it is to make a speech in court or amputate a limb. —__-+ e+--___— in the body betwen youth and old age is the greater density, toughness and ri- gidity, Sie has but one short moon to lve, are sufficient to feed 30,000,000 persons in And she must live alone! there also exists a perceptible wish that the leon Per trom which it appears that Amer love to me within my whole knowledge of her. Always smiling happily, and with a bey king, the only child in history born th rown on his head, should nave a nce of showing whether he is com- petent to rule. But besides these feelings is a grcat body of dissatisfaction, rising in the southern provinces to acute discontent. The towns are frightened by the expendi- ture, the country folks writhe under a tenure which leaves them always poor and overworked, and beth are made savage by @ demand on their children equal, when the relative populations are remembered, to a demand on Great Britain for 500,000 lads in its composition. matter, and the greater proportion of ca!- careous earthy matter which enters into ‘This earthy matter, which is principally phosphate of lime or bone common chalk, ard sulphate of lime or plaster of with occasionally magnesia and other earthy substances, supplied in bread. Another authority says that bread is beneficial to man until the age of thirty, because it is the very best builder of bone carbonate of lime or is abundantly After the Proposal. From Tit-Bits. For several minutes the young man did not speak. His heart was too full. It was enough for him to know that this glorious creature loved him; that she had promised to share his fate. With a new and delight- ed sense of ownership he feasted his eyes once more upon her beauty, and as he real- A barren realm of withered flelds; Bleak woods and falling leaves: The palest miorns that ever dawned; ‘The drearlest of eves. Tt Js no wonder that she comes month! with tears of pain; ror what can none so hopeless ut weep, and w . cep Sie. STODDARD. A Problem. From Life. face like a girl's, and in a few minutes she died in my arms, her head on my cheek. These incidents gp sustaii me that I tell them to her beloved ones as their right; there was no lingering, nor acute pain, nor consciousness of separation, but God took her to Himself as you would lift a sleeping child from a dark, uneasy bed into your arms and the light. Thank God! Annun- ziata thought, by her earnest ways with me, happy and sniiling as they were, that she must have teen aware of our parting’s ican farms raise food for 100,000,000 of peo- ple yearly. The western prairies are capa- ble of carrying double the present number of live stock and producing ten times as much grain as they do, so that for at least a century to come there is every probabil- ity that the exportation of food will in- crease with population. The same is true as regards cotton, the crop having risen 125 per cent in twenty years. The world is only beginning to have evi- dence of the enormous productive power of conditions into profanity. The strain of ai- tention they labor under while trying to talk politely must be something frigitful. Fancy having to pause just about as you are going to use your natural expression for the admirable qualities or utter use- lessness of an absent person and search for an unfamiliar synonym that will cover your meaning. No wonder that habitually profane men don’t talk much in polite so- ciety. Some of the most profane classes of men and muscle. After that age starchy foods are detrimental, and in old age bread may justly be called the “staff of death,” be- cause by accelerating the ossification of arteries it contributes greatly to bring man to his grave. In spite of the propounding of these alarming theories, and the fact that the ized that henceforth it would be his privi- lege to provide for her welfare and happi- ness, he could have almost wept with joy. His good fortune seemed incredible. Final- ly he whispered, tenderly: “How did it ever happen, darling, that such a bright, shining angel as yourself the United States. ——~e-_____ Theories of Ocean Tides. From-the Boston Transcript. Prof. G. H. Darwin, in his lecture in the Lowell Institute course, explained the stcutly vindicate their habit. Western stege drivers undoubtedly are possessed of the most varied and elaborate repertoire of Swear words that exists on American scil or seas. They can spin out a longer exc sively profane sentence without repeating than perhaps any one else in the business. approach, but she was quite conscious, had words at command, and yet did not even speak of Peni, who was in the next room. The last word was, when I asked, ‘How do you feel?’ ‘Beautiful.’ ” three years. If that demand saves Spain it will be forgiven, but if not, if almost every household in every village is to have a dead son or a sick son, and nothing to show for that misfortune, the hatred of Madrid may inclu the throne, and even, though the Carlists de not think so, kingship In the ab- How strange a thing is a man’s income, Paradoxical though it be. To live within one bothers some, live without one bothers me. ae “Summer is Gone.” ———+e+___ Mieety of Etiquette. om Now, those gentlemen claim that it is not fell in Ieve with a dull, stup{d fellow like | Last nizht I stole away alone, to find From Tit-Bits, See eens thee aah tow Sidon “WHEN Nicer ices gratthcalion‘ot mn thote trae they stra Spain has never passed through the | disciples of the hot water and minced me?" A mellow crescent setting o’er the sea, A true gentleman usually feels that it is | the moon is over any spot on the earth swear; they maintain that nothing else pro- revolution, and Spain humbled and de- | beef diet have taken an active part in the | “Goodness knows!” she murmured, ab-| | And lingered in its light, while over me essential to be courteous to the least as | the water is drawn up toward it by the | duces the proper effect on a tired or frace Spoiled by misgovernmeni, or, if you will, | discussion, the agitation would appear to sently; “I must have a screw loose some- | Blew fitfully the grieving autumn wind. al- | force it exerts, and at the point directly | tious team. Coaches of athletic teams and by the misfortunes of its government, may | have created more interest. than convic. | 202tl¥: Ree | een es aig eae ae to the greatest, but etiquette does not al- et determine to pass through that fire. | tion of the error of the bread-eating habit. A Hermit in a Big City. Paris Letter to the London Telegraph. boat crews occupy in a measure the same position as stage drivers, and justify the same offense with the same argument. The Coach Knows. She has an idea, remember, which, though latent, is very strong, that in renouncing federalism she gave up her proper destiny, Relative Strength. opposite, on the other side of the earth, the water is also raised in the form of a big wave,” said Prof. Darwin. “Between these points, on elther side of the earth's id, eames is gove,"” and watched how bright and a the moon’s track the little waves sped “summer | is gone! her golden days are dead.” ways recognize this. The famous Talley- rand is reported to have used a graduation of politeness in asking his guests to take As an impartial critic of the situation puts it: Mankind will take a good deal of convincing that the staple food of their race through countless generations is a We must add—for it is essential to our argument, though we have pressed the point before—that our countrymen exag- gerate the difference between the power of the Union and the power of Spain. Uiu- mately that difference is enormous, but it dces not appear so to Spanish eyes. Span- fards: think, erroneously, that by a system of ney could put an end to American trade, only a portion of which, as they for; is carried on in American bot- toms. They think that they could make the landing of an American army in Cuba @n excessively risky and difficult operation, and they believe that if an army landed in the island their own great army there Would be able to defeat it. The Spaniards, with more reason than Englishmen think, believe in their own soldiers, and attrioute their failure ih Cuba to any cause rather than military incompetence or want of readiness for battle. In short, while they €xpect to be beaten in the long run, and fully share the English opinion as to the deleterious article of diet, which ought to be discarded in favor of substances con- taining a less amount of “earthy matter.” Whether bread be a wholesome food or an insidiously workirg poison, the staff of life or death, there is every reason to believe it will be eaten with as much appetite and as little misgiving at the end of the next century as it is today. will not endeavor to prove that it does them no harm. They will simply add as much butter as they can and “chance it.” ——_—_-e—. No Taxes There. From the London Times. The community forming the British col- ony of the Falkiand Islands should be a very happy one. From the latest report of the administrator it seems that there are Do direct taxes—unless a trifling levy on houses in Stanley, the capital, to maintain a fence round the town, and one on pas- toral land to eradicate the scab disease The human race Various, indeed, are the ways in which eccentric people indulge their little pecu- liarities, but a decidedly original manner has been adopted by an old lady living here. On one of the grand boulevards stands a house with closed shutters. and fastened door. Scarcely a sign of life is there about the place, and the house has remained in a similar state over a quarter of a century. The owner is an old lady, who, on September 4, 1870, the day on which the republic was proclaimed, reso- lutely determined that no one affected by republican ideas should ever cross the threshold of her dwelling. To avoid any such dreadful contingency she simply de- clined to allow any one inside, and has re- fused all offers to hire either apartments or the shop below. The only time she breaks through her hard and fast rule la when workmen are permitted to enter in order to carry out repairs. Painters, car- penters, locksmiths and masons once a eer ae I thought, “Since I have trod bS Shrth's waya with Witting ce celactant eet feet, wer did season Dring. Ine Orowned with tire Jone and priceless gifts, from “And they are gone; they will return no ‘The slender ion went down, all red and sell: ‘The stars shone clelit, the silent dews fell chill: The waves with cedgeless murmur washed the Fe wT A low voice naka: “Anasaherefore art thou sea? Here in thy heart all summer ot Hes, And smiles in in sumine»'though the sweet time "Tle thine to Keep foteverAtresh and glad!” beef at a dinner party that he gave. The grade ran thus: To a prince of the blood: “May I have the honor of sending your royal higness a Uttle beef?” To a duke: “‘Monseigneur, permit me to wae a8 @ litth ea, : @ marquis: “Marquis, may I send you a Tle beef’ @ viscount: “Viscount, pray have a etle beef.” ‘To a baron: “Baron, do you take beef?” To an untitled gentleman: “Monsieur, some beef?" ‘To his private secretary: “Beef?” But there was yet an inferior personage circumference, the ocean is depressed, the moon thus tending to form a spheroid of the waters, and giving rise to two high and two low tides in the course of one revolu- tion ane the earth. “To understand the bi-monthly spring and neap tides we must take into account giso the effect of the sun on the oceans. The force exerted by the sun is 26-59ths as fowerful as that of the moon, and when there is a full moon or a new moon the force of both bodies is acting together, and gives rise to the condition known as spring tides. But when the moon is half-way be- A college graduate and old crew captain, who gives some days of each year to the development of his alma mater’s boating material, said: “Some of the fellows go back to teach the youngsters the science of it. They depend on me to stir them up and keep them out of trances. Having tried every other means, I can say without bhesi- tation that plenty of profauity is "he only thing that will accomplish the purpose. There are men, to be sure, of a high- strung temperament, who get ‘rattled’ if they are talked to sharply. Profanity is a stimulant that must be applied to a crew judiciously, but a medicine that most young athletic men can take a good deal of with- out disadvantage.” Swearing is the rule with all men who lve free, open-air lives flavored with ex- citement. The miner and the prospector, the cowboy, locomotive engineers, woodmen —it is the exception when Neage and — jasses produce a man who does not rein- reer his sentences with occasional well- is sev-'| rounded oaths. Po relat In battle, some of the greatest of leaders Tesources of the great republic, they do | amongst the sheep, can be called by this | Yar foe ralatives whose o- ee ee eae enn Oe Rab de ead thn conten of Gormeriea on Goveae not expect to be defeated with ridiculous | name—the assets are much in excess of the | fitical tendencies are the same as her own dierent ‘velocities = possessed of demons. Poe! dees not ease, or on in any way er Pa the | liabilities, society is enlivened by the fre- she is particularly gracious, Paty me bad ‘between teen the oaths that are heard among the war, which, again, will furn! a ex- resence maj and | death of each one an apartme! in use both for more searching taxation ana | Wet P ks paeet ons: = the climate is so excellent that there has | building is sealed up, and now all are been immunity from diseases, | closed barr! the very small one at the peace ie. a back of Ce ane, which the anti-republi- shouts of a charging column: there is much ” in history that is not writ for compromises with the most pressing Sheridan were no less whirlwinds in battle national creditors. We fear, therefore, that they mean to accept war, or possibly pro- voke it; and as the Americans are in much whether of an epidemic or an endemic na- ture, and the colonial can hermit reserves for her own use and because they could turn loose a few red- ives. that of her three servants. This strange Insert a clause in| Ot ©xPletives. ict to an ee ee ae Lehner Re Ty it ee the next French budget for the withdrawal | temper, swearing has another at least ap- something more than possible. It would al- peatedly excited comment, and numerous centimes from it value. It is told of a minister learn- Most certainly save the throne of Al- have been the attempts of people to gain The to play golf that, under certain circum- honso II, who would be regarded in de- an entrance by some eS Se them ‘with nickel | ‘stances, he found difficulty in hitting the leat as a victim of undeserved misfortune; thelr efforts are foiled Be! it, and five centimes. ball. As he pounded away helplessly, peel- end to save that throne eat any hazard is who the front door with draeon-ltke @ total of 70,000,000 ing off a considerable surrounding radius Pecessarily and justifiably the one preoc- and the would-be ini soon off. To avoid con- of turf, it was noticed that he was turn- eupation of the queen regent, who has a finds the portals in his face, and with the silver currency the nickel | ing red in the face, then purple; that the great deal of that capacity for a kind of none the wiser for his curiosity. the center and will | veins in his forehead were swelling, and serene dominance which has for centuries They will be com-| that his eyes had baleful glitter. He kept the Hapsburgs at the top of their An Inference. per cent nickel and/ Kept his however, and world. From Puck. when he at was con- Sa oo gratulated elt! [is ever Hight for a wife to do any. “3 me 10. ride » question whether | “I don't congratu, thing to exasperate her husband, the best wheel an hour a day.’ Softening of | lated,” he keep thne is just before he is going to beat the ‘Wheeler (coritemptuously)—"Only an brain leads Sper ghey ag think I should parlor carpet.—Somerville Journal. hour a dey! He must be a homeopath.” hair.Chicago News de better to have said