The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1895, Page 3

‘Ges wt oF we | | | | The popular round waists, full sleeves and fiaring skirts will continue | with us this autumn. renewal of Marie Antoinette styles, has affected some of the latest designs in silken goods. Skirts of immense weight will not be carried around as heretofore. The most fashionable skirt is inter- lined to the knee only. Belts, collars, and cuffs have all taken a change and by their effects change the old gown into a very at- tractive new cne. Two novelties in sleeves have quite hidden the leg of mutton design. Velvet, silk. or satin will be worn with woolen goods. Plald silk sleeves, crush belt and collar will prettily remodel many last year gowns. Plaid that are French, rather than Scotch in design are worn, and are considered stylish, A new idea is a genuine stock of satin cut bias eight iches wide, hem- med, the ends pointed and passed from the front to the back of the neck and then brought to the front again, where they are tied in a smart little bow. Three godet plaits at the back and two on each side forma stylish shirt. For a stout figure a narrow front ts liked, and a pretty style has the sides apparently lapped over to the front and held down by three clusters of three large buttons. It is quite stylish to line the godet skirts with morreen and no other lin- ing, binding every seem. Skirts should clear the ground and not drop at the centrein the back. The short corsage pointed front and back, is worn by stout figures. Short revers are worn also large sailor collars of silk or velvet that end in two points at the belt. Button trim the centre box plait, also fasten belts and are put near the shoulders and belt of ribbon braces that end in a fluffy bow on the shoulders. Jet buttons edged with rhine stones are worn on black gowns for ornaments as they are no longer an article of gen- eral utility. In lining a circular skirt, cut the lin- ing straight on the sides where the round curve comes, this presents sag- ging to a great degree, except for crepon which ought not to be cut in this style. Henrietta cloth is never out of style for children dresses and ladies tea gowns. Princess gowns and effects are worn fastened in the back by young ladies, others have them hooked up on the left side. Crushed belts are only three inches wide and are of bias cut silk, satin, or velvet tied on the left side. Velvet ribbon are given a special vogue this winter, from No. 9 up to almost like a sash ribbon. Whether the collar is to be turn over one or a folded one, it must be very high and have the air of perfection. Soft woolen suitings in the blue and green plaids, make very smart looking street dresses, provided the wearer has a tall slender figure. Light weight cloth with a smooth surface bid fair to be popular, and as they drape easily, are very pretty. Crepons will be worn all during the season, but have not the very heavy curve, fancied in the past. LOUIS STERN'S APPEAL DISMISSED. New York Banker's Case Will Not be Reopened by Prince Luithold. i Oct. 1—The Augsburge: Zeitung to-day announced that it had learned upon good authority hat the Regent of Bavaria, Prince Luithold. has declined definitely to en- 1 2 » appeal of Louis Stern, of Y . Who was sentenced to im- prisonment for two weeks, and to pay a fine of 600 marks, for having insulted Baron von Thuengen, the Deputy Com- missioner of the Spa at Kissingen. —————.—___ COUNTER DEMONSTRATION AT ROME. Pilgrimages Requested by the Pope in a Circular Letter to Bishops. Rome, Oct. 1—A report is current here that the Vatican has privately is- sued a circular letter to the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church through- out the world requesting them to organ- ize a large number of piigrimages to Rome as a counter demonstration to the ce fetes celebrating the unity of taly. Union College Class Elects Officers. Schenectady, Oct. 1—The Sophomore ciass at Union College held its annual election of officers yesterday afternoon, considerable interest being taken in the event. The votes when counted show- result: President, W. Yates; vice-president, Swann; secre- tary, ; treasurer, P. Yates; foot bail manager, Chricton; ioast- master, Sheehan; tase ball manager, Crothers; business manager of Con- cordiensis, Barbour; historian, Madi- son. ——— Lorillard Takes Stables st Newmarket. ndon, Oct. i—‘che World this x that, in addition to Low- Mr. Pierre Lorillard, the well merican horse ae has =3rk Lodge stables, Newmar- Yee years, and that he will “erses in training at New- Xt week . ENVIRONMENT. “Will you kindly tell me the last word; I did not get it?” In a large audience of eager listeners, a lady leaned over to the gentleman in front and asked the question. “Environment was the word.” “Thank you.” As he turned a sudden gleam of recog- nition flashed into his eyes; a flush over- | spread the face of the woman, her eye- lids dropped, then both looked away to the speaker. The speaker was talking of Lincoln, his early life, its narrow limits of work and poverty, out of which this man had been called into the nation’s life with its larger environment. They had listened attentively, but in that moment's interlude for these two. the great auditorium by the sea, with its ten thousand people, the summer school of philosophy and its study of men and things, suddenly vanished; the present for them had no existence—the past alone was before them. So vividly came back the memory of that summer night when they had parted, they felt the breath of the flowers that hung over the low porch where they had stood together in the long ago. No need to tell what he had been say- ing, but she replied with cruel frankness: “I am tired of being poor; I long for a fuller life than you can give me, larger environment.” “This word has outgrown the diction- ary, and is as large as the earth and the air, the sea and the sky.” ‘Thus the preacher went on, but they heard him not; for them, the word was as large as the universe which lay be- tween their two hearts, The great organ played the last chord, and in the throng emerging from the temple these two stood together for a moment side by side, then were lost in the crowd. When they came again to hear what an eloquent man should say of Dante, each gazed longingly across that vast sea of faces, seeking, but finding not, the other. The majority of that great audience were people whose chief concern wa3 with bread and butter, crops and com- merce. Yet they came for a little hour to be uplifted into a larger atmosphere, and could sympathize with the poet Dante, who, exiled from the land he loved, found no rest in the world’s environment. This word was in the air. It was illus- trated by the world around them, its work, its pleasure, its literature. All the voices of summer were breathing it. If they looked up, they saw men and maid- ens walking or sitting bare-heaued on the beach, the sunlit air browning their skin and blowing the hair about their brows—society’s latest sunshine fad, in- deed, but an environment they cannot enjoy in the narrow limits of city life. If they took up a magazine they read how the death-breeding tenement houses in the great metropolis had been torn down, how good men had persisted in face of opposition, capital and custom, persisted against the resistance of the very people they were trying to benefit— as is usually the case—until finally, down came the old sky-blotting tenements, in streamed air and sunshine, with patches of green grass under foot, making a new environment of light and health and consequent morality for the poor, Chame- leon like, we take the co.sr of our sur- roundings. Taking up a newspaper they find that a woman in Chicago is making a purer environment for the people there. The city fathers had wisely put a broom in the hands where it naturally belongs, making her inspector of garbage—horri- ble word to put intoa story. But like the Theban general, her illustrious predeces- sor, Epaminondas, who was appointed inspector of sewers, she dignifies the of- fice and does the work well. And altogether there seems to be a dis- position to clean out the worldly rub- bish, to surround it with a cleaner, healthier atmosphere, from the stables of politics to the gutiers of intemperance and obliging woman stands ready with her broom to lend a hand. The dust may get into her eyes, but when it settles who shall say that she will not look upon a cleaner environment? The man and woman of our sketch, in their separate wanderings, came upon a multitude of people encamped by the sea. It is a quaint old custom of the far- mers to come from miles away back in the country, for a big sea day, an annual dip in old ocean. Here one saw nature, Narsissus like, reflected in humanity. There was cordial greeting of old friends and neighbors. The hearty hand-shake and jolly laugh, and old fashioned feast- ing it was like many Thanksgiving din- ners rolled into one. The harvest had been gathered; the sea had called them. They lov | it and feared it, frolicked and fitrted w..h it, caressed and buffeted it, played with it and plunged into it. I¢ was to them a bath in lethe; for the time they forgot their dull, show lives, washed from souls and bodies the dust of toil, in that pure environment of the white arm- ed sea. “Not by appointment do we meet with happiness, but ’round some corner in the streets of life, she on a sudden meets us unawares.” Thus the poet voices our experiences. and thus the twospeople of our sketch came and sat down together in the twi- light hour on a seat overlocking the sea, passively obeying an appointment of fate. ig “It is a little world, afte- all,” he said, casually. “We cannot help elbowing each other in its narrow environment.” “Tt is a wide and empty world.” The next moment she would have given much to recall the words; they were a confession of disappointed ambition. “Why do you come with that word up- on your lips?” she added. “It haunts me.” “Because it haunts me also,” he said quietly. “Have you ever noticed that when you are thinking about a thing and questioning it, the world is full of an- swers?” “Yes, I have noticed it in Ife, and— also in literature.” The last with a slight touch of humor. “Ah, now I remember, you used to say of my remarks, that they were full of pleasant reminiscences, no startling sur- prises of originality.” Without heeding this last and as if to lay hold upon the haunting word and ex- oreize it forever, she said: “One seldom finds an ideal environ- ment.” “It takes a strong soul to grasp and bend the circumstances to his will. Most of us are modified by our surroundings. It is the same old question, which shall vield, the without or the within? It is a weighty business making new spheres.” “But to grow and flourish one must xave an atmosphere. The flowers must aave a climate suited to them. Bur for us,” she added meditatively, ‘there is always something wrong with the spheres, one don’t fit in.” Daylight had now quite disappeared. ‘The moon rose, round and red, out of the sea, moving slowly up the horizon, leav- ing a shining track across the waters. “My little woman!” thus he broke the silence that had fallen for a moment be- tween them. “I believe there is a sphere where you will fit in; a climate where you will even grow and flourish; the cli- mate of home. Will you try it with me?” The waves dashing at their feet carried her answer far out to sea.—Lizzie York Case udu The Most Modern House. A house at Chamounix, built on what ust assuredly be termed the most mod- ‘n principles of construction, is claimed to possess, as its most remarkable fea- ture, a constant temperature, in addition to its strength, durability, comfort and beauty. The builder, M. Caron, first put up a frame of steel water-tubing, allow- ing continuous circulation to a stream of water, and around this frame the houze Was put up, the peculiarity being th. all floors and ceilings are crossed ani reerossed by the water pipes—the water, ter passing through the horizontal bes first, that is, under the floors and cellings—passes through the vertical cubes until all have been similarly treat ed. In summer, spring water, fresh as is only the water of the snow-capped Alps, circulates under pressure through th> network of tubes, cools off the walls, and, after having run its course, flows off con- y warmer than when it entered. it has absorbed much “2at, which it carries away. During the .ong and severe w er the water, enter- ing through the basement, is first heated to nearly 100 degrees, and then forced through the tubing. Of course, much of the heat is left all over the house, and a: @ outlet the temperature of the water about 40 degrees, and the speed of the circulation of water can be regulated so as to allow the fixing of a certain temper- ature for the house, hich is equal nroughout. The house measures 6,000 cubic yards, and weighs 120 tons. The Gull and the Fel. We had a gull, a tame gull, with clip- ped wings, who would feed on fish if we would give him any, failing fish, on raw meat, failingyraw meat, on worms and and failing these, on anything, sparrows. It was the most g entertainment to give him for he would toss the eel about al ways until it came to the posi- suitable for swallowing, when ow it; but the eel, not defeated, would often wriggle up in his yullet again, and this process would be vepeated many a time. So, if swallowing ve a delight, the pleasvre which our y ierived from the process musi have b 1 nanifold. Eventually, the eel would ary of the vain ascent of the gull’s let, and consent to remain in contact with the juices of digestion. Nature is a .ueer mother of her children. One never knows how much the staie »f domesticity affects creatures that aught to be wild. In the natural state, perhaps, one swallowing would have bren enough for the gull, and for the 2 He was a herring-gull, and it was until his fifth year that he arrived full dignity of his white and pe: rlumage. Before that he was alw dressed in some of the dingy, feathers of infancy. Yet in their wild state these gulls are said to arrive at the adult plumage before the fifth year. —Macmillan’s Magazine, 5 Whittier and Old Butler. When John G. Whittier was a child his father had a pair of oxen named Buck and Old Butler. They were treated ai- most as family pets, and as they lay on the hillside, chewing their cuds, the two boys, Greenleaf and Matthew, used them as armchairs, sitting upon their fore- heads and leaning against their horns. Old Butler once saved the future poet's fe ina way that entitles him to everlast- remembrance. The story is told in Mr. Pickard’s biography. The boy went to the pasture with a bag of salt for the cattle. Old Butler, from the hilltop, saw him coming and hurried down to meet lum. It happened that the slope was pretty steep, and the heavy ox acquired such momentum that he found himself unable to stop. A moment more and the boy would have been crushed. But the ox pulled himselt together, leaped straight out into the air, cleared the boy’ ead, and came to the ground far below with tremendous force, but happily without harm.—The Youth’s Companion, Feelings Producing Chemical Products. Accore 3 to Prof. Elmer Gates, re- cently oi .he Smithsonian Institute, bad and unpleasant feelings create harmful in the body wh.ch are injurious. Good, peasant, benevoleni and cheerful feelings create beneficial chemical products, which a physically healthful. These produc may be detected by chemical analysi the perspiration and secretions of the in- dividual. More than 40 of the good, ani as many of the bad, have been detected. Suppose half a dozen men in a room: one feels depressed, another remorseful, another ill-tempered, another jealous, an- other cheerful, another benevolent; if samples of their perspiration were placed in the hands of the rsychophysicist, un- der his examination the samples reveal ali these emotional condit.ons distinctly and unmistakably. Well Guarded. The treasures of the P2nk of France are carefully guarded. At the close of business hours every day, when the money is put into the vaults in the cellar, masons .t once wall up the doors with hydraulic mortar. Water is then turned on and kept running until the cellar is flooded. A burglar would have to work in a diving suit and break down a cement wall before he could even start to loot the vaults. When the officers arrive the next morning the water is drawn off, the masonry is torn down, and the vaulis opened. The Clever Corean Woman. Out of a few simple ingredients (which her Western sister would scorn) and with a few simple implements (that that sister would not understand), often almost without implements and with little fire, fire that must be coaxed and humored, and humored and coaxed, the poorest Corean woman will prepare a meal which no hungry European, prince or peasant, need scorn to eat. It will be savory, wholesome, clean to deintiness, and pléas- antly served.—From Mrs. L. J. Miln’s Quaint Corea. Milton was quiet and reserved in con- versation, but thoroughly refined and. well-bred. THE WASHINGTON BEE. MOTHER’S OF GREAT MEN. Schumann’s mother was gifted ir music. Chopin’s mother was as delicate a: himself. Gounod’s mother was fond of paint- ing and music. John Quincy Adams said: “All that Iam my mother made me.” Spohr’s mother was an excelleni judge of music, but no musician. Milton’s letters often allude to hi mother in the most affectionate terms Raleigh said that he owed all h politeness of deportment to his mother. Wordsworth’s mother had a char- acter as peculiar as that of her giit- ed son. . Goethe pays severab tributes in hi writings to the character of his mother. Mohammed revered his mother and ineuleated similar reverence in hi: teachings. St. Augustine, in his books, speaks of the debt of gratitude he owed to his mother. Haydn dedicated one of his most important instrumental compositions to his mother. Sydney Smith’s mother was a clever eonversationalist and very quick at repartee. Von Ranke’s mother was literary and the author of several essays and other works. The character of Washington's mother is too well known to need more than an allusion. One of the few redeeming traits in the character of Henry VIII. was his respect fror his mother. Gibbon’s mother was _ passionately fond ‘of reading, and encouraged her son to follow her example. Coleridge reverenced his mother. He once said: “A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” The mother of Lord Cornwallis did not, at first, favor the idea of a mili- tary career for her son. Mozart’s mother was a delicate, spirituelle creature, who, it was said, seemed more soul than body. It is sald that the mother of Charles Darwin had a decided taste for all branches of natural history, Weber, the musical composer, had a@ musical mother, who found pleasure in the gems of classical music. Roebuck said that the sweetest part of his life was his early childhood. “Heaven is at the feet of a mother.” PEOPLE OF NOTE —- Mrs. Oliphant, with a record of seventy-eight novels to her credit, never touches a pen in the daytime. She thinks the stillness of the night is necessary for good writing. Mr. Depew has noticed a marked change of sentiment on the silver question in the West since his visit of five weeks ago, and he thinks that the growing posperity is working the change. Frederick Yates, the comedian, father of Edmund Yates, introduced the phrase, “First catch your hare.” Among other characters he represent- on the stage was that of Mrs. Glasse. In this he appeared as a frumpish old lady, ostensibly reading out of a well- thumbed cookery-book the following words, written expressly for him by Tom Hood: “Ahem! Hare. First catch your hare. Then do him till he’s done!” The pathetic death of young Dr. John W. Byron, the celebrated bac- teriologist, from consumption, which originated during his experiments with tubercle bacilli, recalis again the strange frtality which overtakes so many medical specialists. The list is a long one of all those who have suc- cumbed -as victims to ti special dis- eases. Dr. Byron has died a martyr to science, but he lived a hero of medi- eine. He was known as the hero of Swinburne Island, on which he spent one whole month among the cholera- infected immigrants. During his brief but world-famous career ke braved death many times over in iis most hideous shapes. He defied the yellow fever plagues of Peru, the m1!- arial fever epidemics of Cuba, and the cholera plagues of both the Old and the New World. He leaves. too. as a valuable legacy much new information concerning the dread diseases of sma!!- pox and leprosy. THEIR FAVORITE BOOKS. Cowper read only his Bible and his prayer book. Hallam said model historian. Chop; rarely read anything vier ti. . French novel. Auber uated reading, and read save under compulsion. Caesar Borgia had a library works relating mostly to art. Titan read his prayer book and the Metamorphoses cf Ovid. Voltaire’s favorite classical author was Juvenal, the satirist. Rossini for nearly thirty years read nothing but French novels. Jean Paul Richter had only five or six books, all philosoph:cal. Lord Clive said that “Robinson Crusoe” beat any book he ever read. Franklin read all he could find re- lating to political economy and fin- ance. 3 Michael Angelo was fondest of the that Livy was the hea- never of books of Moses and the Psalms cf David. Hogarth was fond of joke bo~ and farces, and enjoyed them im:.vJeraie- ly. Cherubini was a lover of botany. and made collections of works on tue subject. Mario, the great tenor, read any- thing he could obtain relating tosporcs or hunting. George III. for many years of his life read nothing but his ‘Bible an. prayer book. “Papa” Hadyn liked stories, and he said: “The more love there is in them the better.” Swift made a special study of the Latin satisists and-imitated -their-style and. language.- incase FACTS IN FEW WORDS. London has thirty persons whose incomes are over $500,0U0 a year. Silk is so cheap in Madagascar thau the poorest people wear clothing mauc of it. A Minnesota man has sued a barbe: for $500 damuges for ruining his beard. The nevsest thing out in London’: world of swelidom is,a hand-painteu shirt front. If you sneeze in a Vienna cafe, even strangers will remove their hats, anc exclaim: ‘God bless you!” Buffalo has 2,440 saloons, 113 hotels. 74 storekeepers, 73 druggists and 9. taverns licensed to sell liquor. The number of police in England i- as 1 to every 730 inhabitants, 1 to 92. in Scotland, and 1 to 341 in Ireland. It is estimated that two years a required for the gulf water to trave. from Florida to the coast of Norway. It is said that most 5,000 horses ship ped from America to Eurepe recently were intended for slaughter as food. Almost without exception the Am- erican leaders in the revolutionar; war were thin, while the British gen- erals were stout men. Paper tires are soon to be manu- factured for cycles. They are sup- posed to last longer than rubber and to puncture less easily. Over 400 diamonds are known to have been recovered from the ruins of Babylon. Many are uncut, but most are polished on one or two sides only. It is stated that in one week of las' year one railroad issued to members of the New York Legislature, fo: themselves and friends, 458 passes. A man in London is making a lot of money by lending out a £1,000 Bank of England note for swell weddings to be exhibited as the gift of the bride’s father. To open an account in the Bank of England a person must deposit not less than £500, and the authorities re- quire the depositor to be introduced by @ customer. A London firm, which has manu- factured eight of the eleven cables. linking the United States to England. makes fifty-five miles of cable every twenty-four hours, Buffalo, N. ¥., is the latest city te adopt the Pingree plan of potato patch farming for the poor. Mayor Jewett. of that city, has appointed a commit- tee to raise $5,000 for the scheme. A balloon recently sent up in Paris equipped with self-registering ther- mometers and barometers reached au altitude of ten miles and the thermo- meter recorded 110 degrees below zero. One who describes himself as a practical floriculturist, has discovered a remedy for hot-house pests in @ soap made from the oil of the fir tree. Nothing, he avers, is more disliked by the insects. South American ants have been known to construct a tunnel three miles in length—a labor for them proportionate to that which would be required for men to tunnel under the Atlantic from New York to London. Paris is to have a competition of laundresses im the Palais de Beaux Arts, in the Champs de Mars. It is organized by the Town Council as a protest against the fashion of sead- ing Paris linen to London to be wash- ed. “Grog,” the sea term for rum-and- water, it may not be generally known, derived its name from Admiral Ed- ward Vernon, who wore grogram breeches, and hence was called “Old Grog.’ About the year 1745° he or- dered his sailors to dilute their rum with water. The parasitic fig indigenous to the tropics is an extraordinary plant. Its seeds are distributed by birds, ani should one drop and ledge in a tree it will germinate there and send a loans root to the ground, whence it can draw nourishment. It then rapidl, spreads in growth over the unfortun- ate tree, which soon dies. Among the many historic landmark: which are disappearing in Europe are the ancient gateway at Calais, hi by Cardinal Richelieu and so grapui cally pictured by Hogarth, and the fa mous mills of the River Dee, in Eng- Jand, which date back to the days of King Edawrd VI.; while in London the Seven Dials, so famaliar to the readers of Dickens, Smollett, Field- ing and other novelists, is about to make way for St. Andrew's Circus. SWEET AND SAUCY. A woman looks prettier getting a baby to sleep than she looks upon « public y!atform.-—Atchison Globe. Promises made in the time of at fliction require a better memory than people commonly possess.—A. Daudet First Twin—This is r-y birthday Aunt Jennie—And isn’t it brothe Willie’s, two? “Nope. I licked hin and made him give his half up to me.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Without the consent of the world 2 scandal doth not go deep; it is onl: a slight stroke upon the injure: party, and returneth with the greate: force upon those that gave it.—Sa ville. “The eyes,” Emerson says, “spe?k al languages. They wait for no i duction; they are no Englishmen no leave of age or rank; they respec neither poverty nor riches, = re learning, nor power, nor virtue, no sex, but intrude and come again, ant go through and through you in a rio- ment of time.” CHARACTERISTICS OF W2OD%. most elastic is tamarack. th- or shellbark, standing not fa “The black, below. The wood with the least clastic‘t and lowest pacific gravity is Fiscu aurea. The heaviest: of the. foreiga woo} are the pomegranate and the lignur vitae, and the lightest is cork. The strongest wool which grow: within the limits of the Unired Srat- is known as “nutmeg” hickory, w! flourishes on the Lower Arkansas er. DISSECTING A MUMMY. The Surgeon Worked Hard, But Had to Give Up the Job. When Rev. 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 in 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 @ 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 thon 4 copie of . newspaper nien, oie arnic’ “EP 2 pas 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 iinen, 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 death 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 ccvered the hreast like a pair of suspenders crossed on the back. Under this were broa& strips-of Hnen running longitudinally. All this was removed with compara- tive ease. Finally a layer of pitch was reached that looked as If the embalmer had ponred a great quantity of it on the body before commencing the prv- cess of winding it up with liner. The substance was as hard as cement. and. after working diligently on it for half an hour. t*e 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 ft had become hardened and was broken off with" pitch. Around the neck were a great number of linen ban- dages, and, although Dr. G ay a great portion, he only sitcce 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 now gone away, and the examination of the mummies will be indefinitely postponed.—Baltimore American, SESS Kents’ Rank as a Poet. At his best, Keats is probably the greatest poet, in perfection of expression, magic of style, and ineffable distinction of thought, since Shakespeare. His verse has the classic quality, and he who had no Greek, in his “Odes to the Nightin- gale” and to “Autumn,” is as Greek as Sophocles. We cannot trace the mode of his inspiration; we cannot derive it from Milton, Spenser, or the Italians Like the minstrel of Odysseus, he is “self-taught,” and as the Muses, meeting Thamyris, “reft him of sight. but gave him song divine,” so they gave to Keats brief life, but all their charm. He is not a poet of ideas, of “movements,” of re- volt, like Byron and Shelley, but @ 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 poet of poets. Had he lived, even he would not have excelled himself, nor can we even guess what he might have done had his life been prolonged to the years of Tennyson. He was not only poetical himself, but the cause of poetry in others, and it ray be decr | that Shel- ley never exceeded the merits of his “Adonais.” Leaving such verse as he did, and mourned in such a requiem, Keats may be regarded as one of those who die young because they are dear to the gods. Beware of the Wheel. A French doctor’s conclusion is that no one should ride a bicycle who has a ten- dency to excessive tension of the arterial system, for this tendency !s 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 2 few days, one must take it up again with caution and deliberation. The temptation to go fast should be steadily realsted. H