The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1895, Page 3

tion sho tre, findin tle But is k and white, whether for moura- r ry wear, are combinations id to none for popularity hiffon and silk cape which sthe waist will be found reezy evenings and after- 1we May now expect to hued glace silks, gossames soft sprigged muslins may 1s the fabrics for excellence 1 the prettiest gowns are cats will be extremely ¢ghic ompany generally brocade resses. cloths show some ver olor effects, produced in a t colors that are ubdued by over- ack, dark brown, blue or 7 a number of bengaline ef- 1and novelty wools, the imeleon effects, and have silk threads thrown over in dots, dashes, and regu | flower designs. e with a peculiar yellowish mso much during the past vong the prettiest combi- new fabrics, and prom- even more popular than desirable novelty goods surface as silky, smoothei with long camel’s hair rit; itis double faced and d dots of the wrong side vn upon the right side, in un colored dots, it would nost fastidious taste. he mohair crepons are qnite novel one has clusters of plush stripes. It is very and most effective when nly part of a gown. are handsomer and in better an heretofore, being heavier ) stiffas those of last season. 1 lace crepe will be mingled and velvet for elaborate e same daring fashion. \gown of mastic cloth has a wid ring skirt, but the many seams ar th white satin; the waist is o. pon veiled with beaurre lace y appligue pattern, stretched moothly as a corselet in the back, but drooping slightly in front. Hi boucle cloths prevail in the ts, Which are extremly simple. re either quite short or or ength, with modified godet in the back, the sleevs have am- ut not exaggerated fulness at s the melon, cut in many Segments which round in at the taking out all superfluous rt coat for dressy functions is k satin, very richly embroid- with cut jet beads. It is quite ith modified flutes inthe back. made tweed suit with large the short, loose front coat, thing for autumn outings. Dressy little wraps for carriage use g are of cloth, satin, or vel- shed on the shoulders and in le of the back to admit knife- of striped taffeta silk; the lines the wrap, and a full it finishes the neck. a ngements of outstanding s bows that begin and end no. ¥ together with loads of feathers n imes and an increasing amount sel and glitter, are features of autumn millinery. of gray mohair have facings < bengaline or of brown cloth, smart ones are faced with white k oth, and dark brown is relieyed ya golden tan. All the handsome aur woolens can be_ effectively this pattern, but older women tastes may have the facing of ing, instead of contrasting Ss are extremly high and as fallas lace, ribbon, velvet, can make them. aria Stuart ruffis very ef- oming when the neck is 8 r andit is a very fashionable resent. ontinue wide and flaring ind may have as many flute billows around the figure as r cares to display or ha carry. Jor-made skirts continue to servative width, which four »w acknowledged to be. \ skirt measures five and tr yards at the foot and fits isa princess gown at the cpt that there are two nar- aits in the back. h feathers hold an impor falland winter millimery a dozen are often used or mnets are also seer ifrom two to six wings. RSON’S AUTOBIOG RAPHY. Np arro (Mary Anderson ted the autobiography © career, and a series of the chapters from the be printed in The Journal. In these arti- *ovarro will tell of her 2n the stage, the ex- s a xatrical life, and the d y ~,,_merica and England +. “84° gshe made. The \ . sabiography in 4 } = THE WASHINGTON BEE. WISE AND OTHERWISE, - The smallest wrinkle may serve as @ grave for the greatest love—Theo- phile Gautier. “I reach and reach, but cannot grasp,” sighs a certain Poet. He must have been chasing his hat “What is the use of knowing how to tell the truth; so few persons know j how to hear it?—A. d@’Houdetot. To live above your station shows a proud heart, and to live under it dis- covers a narrow soul.—M. Malot, Man was made to mourn, but he has fixed things so that his wife has taken the job off his hands.—Texas Siftings. “Where was Magna Charta signed?” asked a teacher in a south of London Board School. “Please, sir, at the bottom.” The voice of conscience is so deli- eta it “2 easy to stifle it; but it S also so clear that it is impossil to mistake. = There is an immense profoundness “8 aaa 2 commonplace phrases. ey are holes dug by generations of ants.—Charles Beaudelaire. The road to ambition is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, and too dark for science—J. J. Rousseau, Profound observers have remarked that when a man don’t know anything he is singularly apt to disclose the facet whenever he has 81 opportunity. “I walked the fioor all night with the toothache,” said he. To which ae K pacer ean replied, “You exp walk the ceiling w: it, did you?” en Shop Assistant—Really, madame, that white feather in your hat makes you look ten years younger. Old Maid —is that so? Then give me another one.—Tid-Bits, “I suppose you are tired of talking about the weather,” said the philos- opher; “but I have been thinking that if people average as good as the wea- ther how happy we should be!” Mr. Emerson says, “Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties or affections that constitute @ necessity of existing. Every man’s task is his life-preserver.” Barber—Would you like a bottle of our hair restorer? Customer—No, thank you; I prefer to remain bald- headed. Barber—Then our hair re- Storer is just the thing you want, sir. —Chicago Mail. Delegate Goodwin, of the Utah Constitutional Convention, holds that “no public man should refrain from reading newspapers, some for infor- mation, and some for the horrible ex- ample they set.” Wickwire—What a beautiful whine you use in asking for a dima You really ought to have that voice cul- tivated. Dimal Dawson—Well, I don’t know but I might be willin’ to have it cultivated—say under the ir- rigation system.—Indianapolis Jour- nal. Smallwort—Old man Gripe, the in his hand this morning and the doc- tors had to cut it out. Ford—Nothing Strange in that They would have had to do the same thing had it been | a nickel—tIndianapolis Journal, ———$$_______. FACTS IN FEW worDs, It is estimated that $100,000,000 was spent in England alone in charity in 1894, Coal-tar yields sixteen shades blue, the same number of yellow tints twelve of orange, nine of violet and numerous other colors and shades. In the famous cellars of the Hotel de Ville at Bremen there are a dozen cases of holy wine, which has been preserved for 250 years. Official estimates place the value of farm animals—horses, cattle and hogs and sheep—in the United States at no less than $1,819,446,306. of | NTERESTING INFORMATION. Italy has 23 crematories. . ! | A floating cannery is new. { France may tax foreigners. Hi Vermont has 200 creameries. Yucatan exports hammocks, An electric gun is announced. ‘Frisco has 950 manufactories. A gun fires 770 shots a minute. Ss erland has watch schools. California has Japanese miners. Bosnia has two female physicians. fraper bicycle ures are unuounced, Vermont is first in marble cuiput. my suli has chimney SWeu; Oxe-rixih of Engiand’s wouien work. _ United States contain 1,64 distl- series, = veun Bull built 31 war ships in issd. Norway ships frozen milk to Eng- land, #rauce has an aluminium torpedo boai. London policeman wears sp Léndon has thirty people whose :n- couses ure over $d0U,0uU a year. dost of the black pearls in exist- ence come from tie aark-iipped v,s- ter ot Lower California. Two thousand patents have taken out in this country tianufacture of paper aione. The largest Bible in the world isa manuscript Hebrew Bible in tae Vati- can, weighing $20 pounds. A cob pipe factory, with a daily out- PUL Of 8,uUU pipes, will shorily ve pur in operation in Waverly, ‘tenn. The hall perier of a London clup aily admits that his posit.cn Ss him in about $7,500 a year. The largest sailing ship afloat is the remodeled Persian Monaren, 3,23 tons measurement. Her iron masts are 184 feet high from the deck. The beet root sugar crop cf the United States is something over 4u,- 600.000 pounds a year, of which Tornia produces 29,000,000 pounds. icholas has esiublished 000 to relieve journa in distress and vide fcr their widows when they aie. Wheat can be grown in the Alps at an cievation of 3,600 feet; in B: ; in the Caucasus at 8,00) nia at 10,000; in Peru and bo- » at 11,000. Out of 26 saloons in Kokomo, Ind., i1 have decided to close, as they see no prospect of making money to the stringency cf the recently-ca- acted temperance laws. The municipal elections held April 2 throughout the Staie of Nebrasxa, where the license question was in- volved. resulted in 90 per cent. of the towns declaring in favor of licens Twenty million dollars worth of bank notes leave the Bank of England been on tne | daily; while sixty fclio volumes cr chattel mortgage man, got a needle | ledgers are filled with writing in keep- | ing the accounts of a sngle day. The French camps in M: gascar will be surrounded with electrical cur- rents so arranged that the approach of any one will be automatically sig- naled, even if the sentinels are asleep. A bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Senate by Mr. Brainerd providing for the application of the Australian ballot system to the grant- ing of licenses to sell intoxicating liquor. The new cable vocabulary of 250,000 words makes a large book. There is no word in it that contains more than ten letters, and every word differs in at least two letters from every other word, One of the proposed two-wheel or “bicycle” railways from New York to | Washington promises a speed of 120 A school with a play ground on the | roof and twenty shower baths in the basement is to be erected in the con- gested district of New York. The largest sailing ship afloat is the remodeled Pedsian Monarch, 3,923 tons measurement. Her iron masts are 184 feet high from the deck. With a population not much over half that of London, New York city (proper) consumes daily 183,000,000 | gallons of water, against 190,000,000 for London. A beggar who died a few weeks ago in Auxerre, France, was found to have | miles an hour as a result of the use of eleciricity and the minimizing of friction. From the Patent Office at Wash- ington comes the report that in the eleven years since the type-writing machine was first put upon the m: | get the sales have amounted to near- 1,000,000 franes in bonds in his trunk, | and in his cellar 400 bottles of wine | of the vintage of 1790. - The following appeal was printed recently in a Scottish newspaper: “Wanted, a good school for girls where the birch rod, coming into fash- ion again, is used in the old way. The earliest farming mill or win- nowing machine was erected in China and was in use there for centuries while Europeans were cleansing their grain by casting it in the air on a windy day. Byron’s household according to Shel- ly consisted, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow and a calcon, and all except the horses went to and fro in the house | at their pleasure. At University college, London, re- cently, Prof. Boys described the ap- paratus devised by him for estimat- ing the density and weight of the earth. The experiments gave the den- sity as 5° from which the weight of the ear.: was calculated at 5,832,- 064,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The practice of ringing the curfew bell appears to have prevailed throughout Europe long before the Norman conquest of England, its object being the laudable one of preventing fires, which on account of the houses being built chiefiy of wood were at that time quite frequent and destructive, One of the cleverest inventions ever patented is the machise for sticking common pins in the papers in which they are sold. The contrivance brings ap the pins in rows, draws the paper n position, crimps it in two 1 hen at a single push passes the p ‘hrough the paper and seis them in position. | taining the churches of the ly $30,000,000. It is said that most of the 5.000 horses shipped from America to Eu- rope recently were intended for slaughter as food. Electricians think this a sign of the coming triumph of electricity as a motor. —$__, ETATISTICAL. In Paris one person in eighteen lives on charity. Thomas A. Edison is the patentee of over 600 inventions. The woollen factories of this coun- try employ 220,000 persons. Five thousand horses have been sold at $5 each in Oregon for the meat. Over $50,000,000 are spent in main- Unik Siates, and $400,000,000 in running the jails. New Yorkers are claiming that their city has a population of between 1,- 900,000 and 2,000,000. The new police | census makes it nearly 19,000,060. | doors, rooms, closets, ete. The secretary of the Vermont Board of Agriculture reports that 1.973 were sold in the State last year, cf which 155 were previously occupied. While Baltimore was getting ready to place fenders on its street cars, eighty-two lives were crushed out, and 300 people more or less injured by the electrics. During the past twelve years near- ly 10,000 miles of rarrow-gauge rail- road have been either converted to standard gauge, or abandoned entire- iy in the United States. Sons of the American Revolution, in convention at Boston, recommend- ed June 14th as “Flag Day” and the erection of a statue of John Paul Jones at Washington. The Siamese have such a supersti- tious dislike of odd numbers that they studiously strive to have in their houses an even number of windows, Less tobacco is consumed in Great Britain, in proportion to the inhabit- ants, than in any other civilized coun- try. The average is twenty-three ounces per annum for each person, A CHAPTER ON CATCHUPS. Simple Rules That Will Prove Timoly Helps to Housewives. Possibly the least expensive articles put up by housekeepers for winter use is catchup, a variety of which can be made at a very small cost. The to- mato and cucumber are the best vege- tables for the purpose, and can be used both ripe or green; they may be cook- ed and seasoned in a number of differ- ent ways or made in their raw s The best and most perfect vegetab! and fruits only should be used for catch- up. The spices should be pure, and commingled as to prevent any one pri vailing to the exclusion of the ot cloves, allspice, mace and cinnamon ing generally used. Onions, garlic, horseradish, black and white mustard seed, with celery seed, give to the m tures an excellent flavor. The vinegar used for catchups should be pure and strong. A porcelain lined kettle is best for the cooking. After being made, catchup should be bottled or put in glass jars, sealed and kept in a cool, dry place. No accompaniments to meats, game or fish is more delicious and healthful t fruit catchups. Tart fruits are best f catchups. Currant Catchup—Take four pounds of ripe, red currants, pick from the stems, put in a kettle, mash, add two pounds of sugar, and let boil slowly un- til thick; add a pinch of salt, a tea- cupful of vinegar, a ‘teaspoonful each of powdered cinnamon, allspice and mace. Mix, take from the fire, let cool, bottle and seal. Gooseberry Catchup—Put five pounds of ripe gooseberries in.a preserve kettle with a little water, boil until soft, add two pounds of sugar, a small cupful of vinegar, with spices to flavor. Let boil until thick, take up, and when cold, bottle and seal. Grape Catchup—Take twelve pounds of ripe grapes, pick from the stems, mash, put in a preserve kettle with a pint of water, let come to a boil, mash and mix. Take from the fire. strain, put back in the kettle with five pounds of sugar and one quart of vinegar. Let boil until thick, flavor with cloves and cinnamon, take from the fire, bottle and seal. Peach Catchup—Take very ripe, soft peaches; peel, and take out the stones; mash and put into a preserve kettle with half a pound of sugar, and a tea- cupful of vinegar to every pound of fruit. Add cinnamon, cloves and mace; let boil until thick; bottle and seal. Birds of the Dismal Swamp. “T have just returned from a visit to the Dismal Swamp,” said Dr. A. K. Fish- er, ornithologist of the Department of Agriculture, in Washington, the other day. “It is a strange region, full of oddi- ties that are not to be found elsewhere. The purpose of my expedition was to in- vestigate the fauna of the locality, and of rare mammals and birds I secured quite a number. Snakes are abundant and are alleged by the natives to be veno- mous, but all that I saw were harmless. When I picked up a good-sized one from a log and held him by the neck, the ne- gro who was paddling for me shuddered so that he nearly upset the boat. “I found about 50 species of birds breeding in the swamp. One of them was Swainson’s warbler, which is very rare. I trapped several species of small mice—rice mice, field mice, golden mice and lemming mice. The lemming mouse is hard to catch, because it will not take any’sort of bait; the only way to capture itis to set a trap in its runway. I set my traps in dry places out of water. Among other things I got two rare shrews. “There are plenty of cattle in the swamp—small, dark and very wild. They are the progeny of animals that have strayed from domesticated herds. Hunt- talk and shoot them like deer. Be: numerous. In the autumn they feed greedily on the fruit of the sour gum. Wldeats, opossums and raccoons are not scarce, while squirrels are remarkably abundant. The squirrels have discovered an easy way to get a living by going along the shores of Lake Drummond and picking up the nuts and berries whict have fallen into the water and drifted in windrows. They trot along the logs and fish them out with their paws. Deer are common, but hard to get. In the fall hunters run them into the lake and cai-h them with dog “There is fine fishing in Lake Drum- mond, which contains plenty of perch, black bass, two kinds of pickerel, th pecies of sunfish and other pan There is no dry ground in the swamp, and one sinks at every step to his in mud. The cane which form. all through the South is abundan gether with a varied undergrowih, it i tangled with vines that run up into ces, so that half a mile an hour is a good rate of progress. One must carry a knife to cut the vines, walking being fur- ther impeded by the cat brier, whose thorns catch in the clothing and hold on like hooks, “The boats used in the Dismal Swamp are all dugouts, made from cypress logs 12 feet long and very narrow. To sh: such a craft properly a nice piec vork. The novice who steps into one of hese boats is apt to go out on the other but the native stands up and pad dies with security. The water is dar! n amber and nt to drink id to be a sure cure for malaria. are no malarial diseases in the swamp. The swamp is full of magnolias from size of bushes to trees 60 feet high. “When I was there they were full of flowers. The cypress trees are cut fo shingles. The best trees for the purpose are those which fell from 25 to 50 ago, and are now covered with me The negroes wade in and « off the mc and rotten bark. Then they cut up tne log into shingles on the spot. The next best tree is one that is newly fallen, and the third quality is the tree that has to be felled.” —Philadelphia Telegraph. er Humors of the Schoolroom. Here are some sample quest answers from a certain New school: Teacher (after a lesson in physioloc: on the names and structure of the tee + —Now, John, name the teeth. John (hesitatingly)—The teeth— teeth—are the cupids, ihe bi-cupid the morals. Teacher—What is the opposite or or dox? Boy—Paradox.—Boston Transcript. Eng Curious Contract. Girls employed in the crepe manuf. ture are under a curious contrat no: i neage in any housework after ‘s of labor. The reason is, lest t uaads become coarse and unfit for th delicate nature of their employment. TALK WITH SIR HENRY. He is Not of the Opinion that Modern Play are Below the Standard of 15 Years 4 go “I never saw but one of Idsen’s pl acted.” he said when the rep him his opinion of them, : read them all. Once I saw ‘The Doll’ House,’ and I saw in it some adn i 2pportunities for the actors, part for the actress who played No a. But ! could not see in the play, or in thos that I have read, any breadth of inter- est. The whole st. ry, the whele act on such a microscopic seale. C ly people who go to the thea ant to be interested in some w field of action than these plays.ofier I believe that par cularly in America the romantic plays will interest you Your hi ry and your lives seem to me to lead you to an interest in them. Americans have seemed to me to be in- terested in the romance of the theater— not the romance of going to the theater, but the romance on the stage in tho plays you see. This is true of Eng audiences, ut especially true f theater-goers in America. I have neve= Seen the possibility of the Ibsen pla ever gaining great popularity. With us in England they never have. They are siven from time to time, but have never attracted large audiences. For By Dare I do not believe that they ever will. “I am going to act in a little play of Conan Doyle’s ‘Waterloo,’ ” Irving said, when he was asked about the plays that the literary men in England were writ- ing now. “It was not written for me, but Dr. Doyle wrote it and sent it to me, and I accepted it. I suppose that dramatists are all literary men to the same extent that novelists are, but there are few of them who write for the stage that learn the fundamental prin- ciples of dramatic construction. I have known a poet in England to write a play without ever picturing to himself the action of any of the scenes on the stage. Now, I don’t think that such man will ever write a good play, how- ever great he may be as a poet. Bul- wer Lytton with ‘Richelieu’ and ‘Money’ would never have been suc- cessful as a dramatist without the as- sistance of Macready. They must learn first how to write for the stage. I am delighted that Anthony Hope’s play has made a success. I have known him for years, and his father before him, who Was a parson. As to the talk of ‘literary men’ writing fof the stage, I don’t be- lieve that there is a man in England to- day who deserves that title any more than Arthur Pineno, the dramatist. “The talk about the plays of the day being inferior to those of fifteen or twenty years ago is something that one must always expect. We are always grumbling, and generally about the past having been better than the pres- ent. If it isn’t the plays, it’s the actors, and the theater-goers of one day are very likely to compare an actor to one of his predecessors to the disadvantage of the present actor. The one that went before is always remembered as better than his successors. With the drama it is the same way. I cannot see that the plays of ten or fifteen years ago were superior to those that are written now. They seem to me as good. Peo- ple say that actresses have to go back to the older pieces when they want to find characters in which to do them- selves justice. “But there is Pinero, who, in the sec- ond ‘Mrs. Tanqueray’ and ‘ The No- torious Mrs. Elbsmith,’ is said to have written two parts which are splendid women’s roles. Unfortunately, I have never seen either of these pieces, but I am not inclined to believe that the drama of to-day is inferior to what has been written. The complaint against it is the usual thing that one must always expect to hear. We are all very likely to praise what has gone before at the expense of the present.”— New York Sun. Badges of Matrimony. Americans are the only women in the world who do not exhibit some sign of matrimony, says 2 writer in the Buffalo E Of course, those who follow the wake of European etiquette would not appear with their daughters wea a hat without strings, but the univ American woman buys what she Iik-s, regardless of whether it be matronly or not, and her daughters will select art! of dress only suitable to married women. In no other country is this the c. Among the Germans the badge of a mar- ried woman consists of a little cap or hood, of which they are wery proud, and “donning the cap” is a feature of > wedding day among the peasants of c¢ tain localities. The married women of are always seen, even in weather, with a thick cloth of dark hu twisted about their heads. v Guinea a young woman leis r hang about her shoulders, but when she is married this is cut short. Chi In Wadai the wives color their 1 tattooing them with the t acacia and rubbing them ings. In parts of Africa the : men perforate the outer edges of th ears and lips and stick rows of grass 3talks in them, and among a certa’n M n- golian tribe of people, the Manthes, tt women wear suspended from tk little basket full of <>stton, to vw spindle is attached. French Noblemen. The Yaris correspondent of the Vos- sische Zeitung says that while befor: the Reign of Terror between 40.009 anc 50,000 noble families fic France, at present only half ber are now in circumstances ting their estates.” It may be of est to marriageable ladi hungeri for a titled husband to lesrn that no blemen are not luxurous 2° ~i] in Gal lia; one need not be an hei ee quire even hi~h rank. Among the sa- vants, artists, mech tics—every there are hundreds of noblemer + out means, many of whom mize re doubt be had for the asking, by a - ciable parties. The Comte de St. 2 rin drives a cab in Paris; the Com‘ Jean de Retz is a grave-digger in '* Normandie; a descendant of the Voici is a letter-carrier in Saint-Cham the Comte dc Saint-Jean peddles mous traps, ete. Of course, the newly in France are as ambitious as th elsewhere, and generally endeavor tc ally themselves with some noble m‘ly but the supply of marriageable noble- men and noblewomen is not exhausted by this demand. at num- fit ate The average man finds his career ready made. DISSECTING A MUMMY. The Surgeon Worked Hard, But Had to Give Up the Job. When Rey. Dr. John F. Goucher, of the Woman’s College, was in Egypt last winter he secured a number of relics in the way of antipuities that have reached this city in several ship- ments. Among the most valued of these are two mummies that Dr. Goucher se- cured im Cairo at the National Museum, which is in charge of Brysch Bey, who has manifested a great interest in Am- erican institutions of learning. When he learned that Dr. Goucher was in search of Egyptian antiquities, he helped him materially in securing a lot of valuable relics, that are now all stored in the Woman's College. It has been Dr. Goucher’s intention for some time to make an anatomical examina- tion of the mummies, and recently he made the attempt, but it was not a pro- nounced success. Both of the mummies are bodies of women. The larger of the two is of the Ptolemaic period, or, in other words, the woman lived in Egypt about 2,000 years ago. The other is ap- parently that of a girl, and from the elaborate decoration of the outer case, it is presumed she was of royal blood, So says Dr. Goucher. There is no in- scription on the outside to mark the period of her life, but from the manner in which the outside wrappings are Placed, it is very evident that the mummy is of the twenty-first dynas- ty. Dr. Goucher was very fortunate in securing this mummy, as all of a like character are carefully preserved by the National Museum. Brysch Bey, however, succeeded in getting this val- ueble trophy for the doctor. It was the larger mummy that Dr. Goucher attempted to open and exam- ine. It was in the wooden case that held the mummy when it was taken from the catacombs, and down the cen- ter of it ran an inscription from the “Book of the Dead” that clearly indi- cated that the mummy was of the Ptol- emaic period. . When the mummy proper was lifted from the case it did not look unlike « large sack covered with pitch. Dr. Goucher went to work on the outside covering with a pair of shears, but he found his task a harder one than he had contracted for. The pitch layer was finally pierced, and then a cople of newspaper men, one armed with a pair of tin-cutting shears, and the other with a screwdriver and a hammer, as- sisted the doctor in tearing away the next covering. This covering was of linen, and if the bands had not parted from the ravages of twenty centuries it would have come off in rolls. Most of the ugper covering consisted of pads of linen that were placed in various po- sitions to give shape to the body, which is an evidence that the Egyptians were as vain about the beauty of contour in feath as their American sisters are in life. After these pads were removed, more wrappings were reached. They were wound with great uniformity, and at one place they covered the breast like a pair of suspenders crossed on the back. Under this were broad strips of linen running longitudinally. All this was removed with compara- tive ease. Finally a layer of pitch was reached that looked as if the embalmer had poured a great quantity of it on the body before commencing the pro- cess of winding it up with linen. The substance was as hard as cement, and. after working diligently on it for half an hour. tte doctor and his assistants managed to expose the left elbow and also to remove enough of the deposit to show the contour of the right hand. The arms were crossed over the breast. The bone of the elbow glistened white in comparison with the deposit that covered the body, and if there was any skin it had become hardened and was broken off with pitch. Around the neck were a great number of linen ban- dages, and, although Dr. Go--her cut p-way a great portion, he only succeeded in showing the contour of the head. Neither bone nor skin was reached. When the examination had reached this point Dr. Goucher discovered the fact that he had but a few minutes to catch a train for his home in Pikes- ville, so the examination was brought to an abrupt end. Dr. Goucher has row gone away, and the examination of the mummies will be indefinitely postponed.—Baltimore American. Kents’ Rank as a Poet. At his best, Keats is probably greatest poet, in perfection of expres le, and ineffable distinct ugh His v has the classic quality, and he who had no Greek, in his “Odes to the and to “Autumn,” is as G »phocles. We cannot trace the of his inspiration; we cannot de from Milton, Spenser, or the the mode sight, but gav VY gave to Ki He is not brief life, but all their charm. a poet of ideas, of “moveme ” of re- volt, like Byron and Shelley, but a poet of life, and of its mystery and beauty. In him, at his best, is nothing temporary or local, any more than in Sappho. Even more than Spenser, he is, or should be, the post of poeta. Had he would n ave excelled himself, r we even guess what he might hav i he had his life been prolonged t He was not cause “Sdonais.” Leaving and mourned in such a requiem, may be regarded as one of tho: who die young because they are dear to the gods. Beware of the Wheel. A French docior’s conclusion is that no one should ride a bicycle who has a ten- eney to excessive tension of the arterial tem, for this tendency is a great cause of heart disease. Therefore, no one should take up the use of the wheel without the express authorization of a physician; and the doctor should make an examination not only before the pa- tient begins to use the wheel, but after he has ridden it for a time. Moreover, the amateur should never ride at a high speed. If one’s riding is regular and daily, one may go faster and further with safety; but if riding is interrupted even for a few*days, one must take it up again with caution and deliberation. The temptation to go fast should be steadily resisted, a