' into the saddle, and rode 30 miles to , . eligible for carving. ’ best for the purpose, and afterward it ‘ " sax—Youths Companion. ,THE EVENING aAznrrE ... Assam-m ‘V‘Y-‘~a»-- ..... w *1 PRETTY CHIP ‘CARVING. 1!. , Fascinating Fancy Work for the ‘ Ladies. Sharp Tool and a Piece of Soft White Wood the Only Material Needed—The Carver Can Chip in the Drawing- Room, So Clean Is the Work. The maiden of this end of the century has added a new accomplishment to her repertoire of arts and sciences. It is chip-carving, the most delightful and “lad ylike” work imaginable; aver- itable fancy work, which one can take up as easily as a. bit of knitting or embroidery. It has the advantage of wood carving, which requires such a. vast paraphernalia-before one can be- gin operations, and is so noisy in the I doing that one’s companions must be long suffering—or deaf. English girls are devoted to chip carv- ' ing, but the art originated in Germany. In the neighborhood of the Black for- est one can pick up delightful speci- mens of the work. Table tops, book- ra-cks, picture frames, footstools, in ,-fact, anything fashioned of wood is White wood is the can be stained in any color—a. black walnut tone brings out the carving to perfection, or white enamel paint is pretty. ' A novice might begin .with a book- rack, one of the miniature kind which holds half a dozen or so volumes and stands on the library table. This, made of white wood, can be bought for ex- actly 90 cents. The two ends are all that require carving. The pattern, which is usudlly one of geometrical design for chip carving, is drawn or traced with lead pencil. Then, with tool in hand, one sits down, at one’s ease in the corner of the draw- ing-room,for the litter of chips is noth- ing to speak of and can easily be kept in the lap. Only one tool is required for the work an amateur will do. It is a “straight" tool, and costs about 25 cents. It can be purchased at any hardware-shop, and must be fitted with a wooden handle and extremely sharp. Indeed, it. is the sharp tool which makes the suc- cessful carver. The design is left in relief and the superfluous wood carved away. If b} chance a bit of the design is chipped off it can be glue on and will never show. >Howevcr, the carver after some practice is not apt to make mistakes of this sort. As the design develops under one’s hand the work becomes quite as fascin ating as embroidery of the most se- ductive description. It is rapid work too, and two evenings ought to suffice to carve at least one end of the book- rack. “’hen the other end is finished the whole should be colored. A bottle of black walnut stain will be the next investment, and two coats are usually required. Then, behold! Your book-- rack finished and a: thing of beauty, ready to present to a friend or to ap- propriate to one’s own use. It must be born in mind that geomet- rical designs are the best for chip carv- ing; They are very easily transferred to the surface of the wood by means of tracing paper.—Chicago News. AN ANCIENT LOVER. Went Courting When He Was 123 and Got the Mitten. Two remarkable cases Of longevity were recalled recently by a conversa- tion between several gentlemen in this city. They were discussing the death of Rev. George McCall, the veteran Baptist preacher, when it was authen- tically stated that Mr. McCall’s great- grandfathcr lived to the ripe old age of 127 years. He was a bachelor at 100 and took a notion to get married. Ho carried out this idea and was married. Three sons were born to him, and he lived to see the oldest son old enough to vote. This was considered remarkable, bu.‘ a gentleman in the crowd, whose char- acter 'and standing religiously and so- cially are above reproach, told an an thentic account of the life of his great- uncle, who was one of Georgia’s pio— neer citizen. This old gentleman lived to be 130.years old. He lived in a. leg cabin. in the northern end of which was cut a square hole. the head of his bed to that hole, and slept that way in the warmestand cold— est of weather. His wife died when he was about 90 years old, and for many years he lived as awidower. At the age of 115 he cut an entirely new set of teeth, and at the age of 123 one morn ing he saddled his own horse, sprang address a. widow and ask her to be his The old man turned . V according to late statistics, has wife. He evidently was rejected, for he rode back that day and lived seven years longer.——Shelbyville Gazette. Esquimau Astrdnomy.’ The polar inhabitants of the north-- , ern regions visited by Lieut. Peary I have definite but limited ideas of as-‘ tronomy. In writing of them Peary says that the j recognize the “Great Dipper” as a herd of reindeer; the three triangular stars of Cassiopea are' the three stones supporting a celestial stone lamp; the Pleiades are teams-of dogs in pursuit of a bear; the three glittering brilliants in the belt of Ori- on .are the steps, out by some celestial Esquimau in the steep snow-bank, to enable him to climb to the top. Gemini are two stones in the entrance to an igloo; Arcturus and Aldebaran are per- sonifications, and the moon and sun are a maiden and her pursuing lover. These Esquimaux estimate time by the movements of the stars as well'as by the position of the sun, and yet, less observant than were the Arab shep- herds, they have not noticed that one star is the center about which all the others move, nor have they set apart the planets, which to them are simply large stars. Whether this is due to the fact that the movements of stars can . be observed during only about three months in the year, it is impossible to I —-1 TELEPHONES IN EUROPE. Not So Extensively Used as in the United States. The world-wide reputation of the American, not only for inventiveness, but for the quick and ready adoption and use of all the appliances of prac- tical science, is well sustained by the statistics recently published concern- in;3 the use of telephones. It appears, says the Youth’s Companion, that in the number of their telephones the United States are far in advance of any of the European nations. We 'have some‘ 636,000 telephones in use, while England and Germany together have probably about half that number, and it is said that they exceed all the rest of Europe combined. But there are two small countries which, in proportion to their popula- tion, use more telephones than the other European nations. Switzerland, one telephone to every 147 inhabitants. and Sweden one to every 184, while in Eng- land and Germany there is only one telephone to every 260 inhabitants. A curious reason has been suggested for the extensive use of telephones in Sweden, namely, that they have proved particularly useful on account of the difficulties of locomotion there, and the great length of the winter nights, which tends to increase those difficulties and perhaps to inspire, like the twilight of more genial climes, a desire for closer human communion. . The obstacles to locomotion in the Alps are thought to furnish a similar reason for the great development of the use of telephones in Switzerland, although the enormous influx of sum— mer tourists is perhaps the most ef- fective cause of their popularity in that country. PARISIAN .BOARDING HOUSE. One Landlady Who- Has Made a Fortunt 011 of Americans. Few American women can afford to pay hotel prices for long stays in Eu rope, but are forced to live in boarding houses when they are abroad, :1. thing at which they turn up their noses when they are at home. The pension prices in Paris range from seven to fifteen francs a- day. It is well to give up the idea of getting into a “swell private family.” .Swell private families in Paris do not keep boarders. There is a swell pension, however, in Paris which has many well-known Americans under its , roof all the time. Among others Duchess dc la Rochefoucauld, when she was Miss Mattie Mitchell, of Ore. gon, lived there with her mother. This boarding house is near the Arc de: Triomphe, and the landlady has made a fortune on t of her American boarders; she says her daughter’s dot is 200,000 francs. The food is not any too good—- one gets rather too much veal there—- but the cooking is excellent. There is 'another large pension in the Champs- Elysees quarter where rooms the size of a packing case are seven francs a day, more comfortable ones 12. Light, fuel, towels, etc., are extra. All the servants have to be tipped all the time, as the landlady pays them starvation wages. You will see at this pension at the table d’hote decayed Spanish grandees, Por- tuguese marquises, Greek diplomats, Belgian barons, queer French counts and queerer French countesses, South American heiresses, Persian generals and any number of American mammas and daughters. At this place the food is good and well cooked. IN CANADA. NO INDIAN WARS The United States Contrasted with the Dominion—A British View. The great fact stands boldly forth that Canada has never‘ fought the In- dians, and she will not begin to do so now. Never has Canada had an Indian war; an Indian massacre is unknown in the annals of her history. She is too poor to seek glory by slaughtering the natives born of her soil and too” proud to defame her character or stain her escutcheon. Contrast with this, says the Westminster Review, the policy of the United States, that is nearly al- ways fighting ‘lts red men. Indian wars are very expensive matters to deal with. The small episode of last year, beginning with the fissiah craze and ending with the tragedy at Pine Ridge agency, covering but a few weeks, cost the United States government $2,000,- 000, besides the lives lost, and in ad- dition unsettled the nativespthrough- out the country. It is to the credit of the Canadian Indians that, although sorely tempted, the Messiah craze had no charms for them. There was in Canada, it is true, Riel’s last rebellion, that cost Canada $7,000,000 and the lives of some of her noblest citizens. But that was not an Indian uprising. Nevertheless, it taught both the white men and the red men a lesson. It taught Canada that it would be cheaper to ration all the Indian tribes than to have another rebellion; and’it taught the Indian the prowess of the authori- ties, and this was emphasized by the trips given the Indian chiefs to On- tario, where they beheld tokens of the power, wealth and glory of the White men. , Equal to the Emergency. They are telling the story in London that the impossible American in Paris a-lighted at a hotel to find it absolutely full. “I have nothing,” expostulated the host, almost tearfully, “nothing. The first floor is taken by the king of the Ostenders; the queen of Montegaria occupies the second; the duke of Cot- tonopolis is sharing the third floor with the caliph of Port Said, and the crown prince of Nova Esperanza is sleeping on the billiard table. As for myself, I have to make up a bed in the office, and, there only remains the chamber of my daughter. Of course-—-” “Is that your daughter?”‘interrupted the .American, pointing to the young lady at the desk. “Yes, sir.” “All right; I’ll marry her after -!unch.” And, giving his valise to the speechless 'boniface, he added: “Now, you can take my baggage up to our room.” \ THE'QUEEN 15 NO “DUMMY." Some of the Prerogatives or the British Sovereign. , People on this side of the watcrare apt to attach too much credence to the oft—repeated but somewhat falla- cious assertion that the queen of Eng- land has no power; is a mere figure- head, in fact, and nothing but a consti- tutional puppet in the hands of the cabinet for the time being. It is often stated that the president of the United States is possessed of far more execu- tive power and pi'erog'ativesvthan her British majesty. This is, according to the New York World, a great mistake. The English sovereign has retained far more power than people realize. For instance, she has the power to dismiss every soldier in the army, from the commander-in-chief down to the youngest drummer. She. could disband the navy in the same wa 7, and sell the ships, stores and arsenals to the first buyer that presented himself. Acting on her own responsibility, she could declare war against any foreign power or make a present of any sec- tion of the empire over which she rules to any foreign power. Acting strictly within her prerogative, she could make every man, woman and child int-he country a peer or peeress of the realm with the right in the case of males who are of age to a. seat and a. vote in the house of lords. With a single word or stroke of the pen she could dis- miss any cabinet that was in power, and could, moreover, pardon and lib- erate every criminal ofany grade that is confined in the. British penitentiaries. These are only a. few of the things that the queen could do if she desired. JUMBO AND THE LAW. A Deputy Sheriff Out After the Great Elephant. It was eight or nine years ago, and the cars containing the animals were unloaded near the Canal street freight house, says the Providence Journal. The animals were guided across Ex- change place by attendants, and the elephants went along very peaceably. They hadn’t gone a great distance, however, when Jumbo-’siback began to itch. The big elephant tried to reach the place with his trunk, but didn’t manage to. So he stepped from the line and looked for some suitable place against which. to rub his back. There were two objects in sight—a big flag— staff and Paddy Burns’ shanty, which stood in the rear of the Three Ones’ : fire station. Jumbo picked out the I shanty, and by the time he had re- . lieved his feelings things inside were lupside down, and the building had I nearly been removed from its founda- tions and shoved into the water. Paddy Burns looked for a lawyer, and found the late Ambrose E. West. ~ The attorney issued a writ and gave it to a deputy sheriff, with instructions to attach Jumbo. The officer present- ed the paper to the treasurer of the circus and then took up a position npar the elephant, but out of the reach of the swing of his trunk. The bill for damages was promptly settled, but the officer said afterward that if the animal had decided to wall: away he hadn’t- any idea how he could have proceeded to enforce the law by compelling him to remain. FRENCH JOURNALISM. The Fifty Daily Newspapers of Paris and Their Readers. The Paris press comprises nearly 50 daily newspapers, the aggregate not having varied greatly during the last ten years. Most of these are sold for one sou. An extremely. limited number is sold for two sous, and two or three only for three sous, or a little less than three halfpence. It is hardly neces- sary to say, by way of preliminary comment, that a dozen really able jour— nals would be better supported and better serve the interests of the public. The French people, taken as a mass, "have little money, says the National Re- view, to pay for the gratification of the small amount of literary taste they pos- sess. 'The novelist, Zola, declared in an interview a few months ago that re- views and magazines like those of Eng- land and America would not find in France a sufficient number of readers to justify their publication. The Revue des Deux Mondes is sup- ported by the professional literati, the learned professions and an aristocracy of birth and money. It is rarely seen outside these circles. Even the hand- some and readable illustrated news- papers, such as the Illustration and Monde Illustre, have only a small circulation, confined principally to the cafes, though the literary matter they contain is generally of an elevated char- acter and especially adapted for family use. A‘N ABSENT-MINDED MAN. He Was Driving to Pasture a. Cow Stlll in the Stable. There have been a greatmany stories about. absentsminded men, where one forgets his house address, what business he is in, and wherc an- other has to refer to the mark on his handkerchief before he can remember his own name, etc. There is a lawyer in Fort Atkinson, Wis.,.by the name of Rogers, who possessed a Jersey cow, which he used to drive, morning and evening, to and from the pasture. a few blocks distant from his home. One morning as one of his neighbors was passing along the street he met Mr. Rogers walking in the middle of the road, his mind apparently engrossed with some weighty question. The neigh- bor called out: “Good morning, Mr. Rogers; where are you going?” prised way, “I’m driving the cow to pasture,” and he waved his hand to- ward where the cow ought to have been. - - “Well, where is the cow ?” asked the friend. “I guess I forgot ,to lether out of the barn,” answered Mr. Rogers, humbly, as he realized his position.) And he had. - anoi her ' , “Why,” said Mr. Rogers, in a sur4 I (y, RICHARD A. MCCURDY President. » , men In heYear nding [13631.1895. = AsSets. . . Liabilities A. . Surplus . Total Iuccme . INSURANCE CO. : 1 or NEW YORK.» Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, ‘ Insurance and Annuities in force. ” Net gain in 1895 1r ' 1 $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 53 . $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 1 $23,126,728 45 $899,074,453 78 $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written, Is dlscarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleading, and only insurance actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the some t o be correct. . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. ' Roper: of the Examining Committee. 0 Wheat \he Mulual Ule Insurance, liompany of New You, February, 11, 1896. Ma meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company,held on thy 18th day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual ‘ parison with the assets of the Company. Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com- The Committee have caiefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby therein are in possession of the Company. certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the. assets specified In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character'of general transacted. H. C. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, the investments (1‘ the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in , Robert Clyphant, 'Wm, P. Dixon, Committee J. H. Herrick. ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. ‘ _ WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier HENRY E. DUNCAN. .71., Got. Secy. ALBERT KL‘AMBOTH: Asst. Secy. FREDERIC .CROMWELL, Treasurer. .5 I w. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier, EMORY MCCLINTOCK. LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. 'PRELLER, Auditor, WM. W. RICHARDS. Comptroller. . HENRY 8. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOI‘I‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN‘SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. JOHN W. maniacs, MEDICAL DIRECTORS ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. I). ~ New Haven, General Agt.'for State of Connecticut. _ A. n. CAME. Local Agent. .
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