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She was ‘supported by two . brides-
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because of the heavy embroidery. Her
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with diamonds, and on, her head she
wore a high crown of precious stones,
to which was attached her veil of
silk and gold. On either side of her
head were ornaments of gold and jew-
els, with threads of gold reaching to
the ground, of such weight that the
bridesmaids had to carry them. She
was one of the most beautiful women
ever seen, and when she was seated
on the throne it was a picture. She
and her surroundings were beautiful
beyond description. \Vhen she retired
the khedive stood on the throne and
threw newly coined money among the
ladies for luck. '
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Afl ARCHDUKE’S VIEWS OF US.
Some Things in Our Scenery and Charac-
ter that Do Not IIIeet His Approval.
Some very frank opinions of America
and Americans by an imperial globe
t-i otter are found in the second volume
of Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s diary
of his voyage round the world in 1893.
The Austrian Prince admits that his
observations may be somewhat super-
ficial, but as the views of a member of
the reigning house of an effete, Old
World monarchy, they are rather inter-
esting. The Prince says:
“All I saw of the landscapes of North
America were mighty mountains, deep
valleys, endless plains, enormous
streams and waterfalls, lakes that re—
semble seas, and immeasurable dis
tanccs. All this bears an indescribable
stamp of grandeur, but it is not gran
deur glorified by poetry that a. son of
old Europe is accustomed to see, and by
which nature touches the tendercst
chords in the human heart. It is a
grandeur coupled with a proud self
consciousness of power which seems to
defend the uncounted treasures against
the hand greedy to seize them. and
thereby challenges man to battle.”
Further on the Prince says that
though the forefathers of the Ameri-
cans "were flesh of our flesh and blood
of our blood, yet the Americans of to-
day are estranged from us. They have
assimilated themselves with the coun-
try they conquered. There is an unde-
niable element of grandeur in their
character, though it is often grotesque
and even outrageous.”
Tho Archduke thinks there is a dispo-
sition on the part of a citizen of the
United States to be more than life size,
to be more than man, and that he has
caught the infection from thenaturc
that surrounds him. But just as an
American landscape lacks poetic beauty
so does the American lack the intimate
charms of personality and warmth of
character and disposition.
“After all,” says the author, “the poo-
ples of the Old World also fought the
battle for existence, and yet ‘ they did
not lose their hearts or their souls,
which are such softening and beneficent
factorsside by side with reason and
energy.”—New York Sun.
A TRUE LOVE STORY.
A Couple lie-United and Dial-tied After
Twenty-Two Years.
The wedding of Miss Armenia Stev-
enson. of Hoboken, to Louis D. Ryno,
of '7 9 Prince street, Brooklyn, not long
ago, was the closing chapter in a ro-
mance that stretches over a period of 22
years.
Twenty-two years ago the couple,who
were then engaged, quarrelled and se 9-
arated. Ryno married another girl,
while Miss Stevenson twice became en-
gaged. Both her fiances died and she
remained single.
Two years ago Ryno's wife died.
Afew months ago the long parted
couple met by chance in the street. The
former courtship was renewed, and
marriage was the result.
Edlson in Oblivion.
The great story of Edison’s discovery
of a. method of enabling the human eye
to see through solid wood, called atten-
tion to the inventors complete isolation
from the things of the world while he
is at work.
Of this fact Mrs. Edison herself. once
had a strong proof. The inventor’s
wife left home for an absence of two
weeks, and said good by to her husband ,
in his laboratory. Two weeks Edison
plodded on, turning night into day and
day into night. sleepless, tireless,.lost
in the mystery of nature’s great won-
ders.
In two weeks Mrs. Edison returned.
and not finding him in the house, sought
him in the laboratory. The inventor
expressed neither surprise nor interest
in her arrival. He did not know. in
fact, that she had been absent. He did
not come forward and greet her in a
husbandly way, but calmly motioned
her to a seat and went on experiment-
ing, oblivious even of,his wife.
She learned afterward that he had
not been out of the laboratory for two
weeks and that those two weeks had
been for him one long night, of almost
unbroken toil.
A Pleasant Story.
This pleasant story is told of the late
Frederick Leighton: A young man
Without friends or money came to Lon
don to make his fortune with his brush.
Orders for pictures were not forthcom-
ing, however, and the young painter
found himself reduced to dining on sun-
set elfects. In despair he wrote to the
president of the Academy at his private
address, in Holland Park, stating his
case, and forwarding at the same time
some specimens of his work.
Within a few days he received an an
swer, asking him to call at Sir Freder-
ick’s house. The president of the Acad-
emy received him kindly, advised him
to study more and gave him two letters _
of introduction. As the young man was
leaving, Sir Frederick handed him an
envelope, remarking:
“Here is an example of the best kind
of drawing. No doubt one of these days
you’ll be able to do as well, if not bet-
for."
It contained a. check for £50. The re-
ceipient is a long way up the ladder
now.
JUVENILE GENIUS.
Handel had produced an opera before
he was fifteen.
Corneille had planned a tragedy be
fore he was ten. '
Auber wrote an Operetta for the stage
before he was fourteen.
Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer
before he was twenty live.
.Tlre Art of \‘Var in Cuba.
“I will issue a. proclamation,” said
the Spanish commander, “giving the.
rebels'filtecn days to surrender."
“And if they won’t surrender?" in
quired the lieutenant.
“Well,” answered the General, "it
they won't we’ll be no worse off than
we are now, will we?"’—I’.1.:k.
DESERVED A GOOD BUSINESS.
The Parson’s Good “’ishcs for a Generous
Subscriber.
The debt of the struggling little
:hurch in the suburbs had all been
:ltlid off but $600 says. the Chicago Tri-
oune.
A clcrg 'nian noted for his skill and
success in raising church debts had
been sent for, and was conducting the
morning service. The sermon was over,
and the work of stirring up the audi-
ence had begun. Subscriptions rose
rapidly to $300, then $400, and after
considerable effort to $500, where they
stuck. In vain the visiting brother ex‘
horted and pleaded. The limit of the
rash resources of the congregation ap-
peared to have been reached, and at
.as‘. he sat down, discouraged“
’l‘lnz: Brother Plant‘hs, a highly-re-
sltl't'lv-Ll undertaker, who had made a
» dim-v.1 subscription already, rose and
mill:
"l-b‘ethreu, this thing shan‘t fall
through after it has got as far along as
{300. I believe in a man giving as the
Lord has prospered him, and, although
I have given a pretty good-sized dona-
tion. I am ready to do more. I’ll pay
that last hundred dollars myself.
[Icre‘s my check'for the amount.”
"I don't know your name, brother,"
shouted the visiting preacher, jump-
ing: to his feet with enthusiasm, “but
I hope your business will double dur-
ing the coming year, and I believe it
will!“ .
NOW KISS ME.
l‘illo of a Sensational Song Causes Cou-
sternation.
A funny incident occurred in a
neighboring city, says an exchange,
and one too good to be lost. One of
our celebrated composers has written
a pretty song entitled, “Kiss Me.” A
very pretty, blushing maid, having
heard of the song, and thinking she
would get it, with some others, step-
ped into a music store to make a pur-
chase. One of the clerks, a modest
young man, stepped up to wait on her.
The young lady threw back her veil,
saying:
"I want ‘Ilock Me to Sleep.’ ”
The clerk got the song and put it be-
fore her.
“Now," said the young lady, “I want
‘The \Vanderiug Refugec.’ ” '
“Yes, ma’am,” said the clerk, bowing,
and in a few minutes he‘produced the
" let'ugce."
“Now, ‘Kiss Me."’ said the young
lady, of course meaning the song above
mentioned.
The poor clerk’s eyes popped fire al-
most as he looked at the young lady in
utter astonishment, for he was not
aware that a song by that name had
been published.
“thwhat did you say, Miss?"
“ ‘Kiss Me,’ ” said she.
“I can‘t do it; I never kissed a
young lady in my life,” said the clerk.
And about that time a veil dropped,
a young lady left in a hurry, clerk felt
sick, and dealer lost the sale of his mu-
sic—Mail and Express.
A Letter from Ole Bull.
The other day Mr. S. F. Newhall, of
this city, who was going through a col-
lection of old family letters, came
across one from Ole Bull, the famous
volinist, ,which vas written to his
mother, Mrs. Emma Newhall, says the
Chicago News.
Mrs. Newhall had written a critique
of Bull's playing for the New York
Tribune, this being the honor referred
to in the letter, and had also. been es-
pecially kind to a young protege of
hers, who chanced to be compatriot of
Bull. This is the violinist’s letter:
“My Lady: Deeply impressed with
the honor you have conferred upon me,
and penetrated with joy and gratitude
for your interest and sympathy in be-
half of a countrywoman of mine, Miss
, I solicit from your generosity
the acceptance of my invitation to my
concerts here, and,'in my name, if it
please you, to your protege also; and
for your kind forbearance with my
humble efforts to attach heaven to
earth in music. I do most heartily
thank you. Altho’ it humbles me to
be so far beneath your own standard;
but I hope for better things. I trust
you will allow me to present my deep
respects in person. I am, my lady,
yours very humblv. OLE BULL.”
“Chicago, March 15, 1854.”
Not. Always on Safe Ground.
Canon Tristram begs the clergy to
beware of wrong or unfortunate il-
lustrations. “IVhen a (lockyard chap-
lain, I once,” he says, “secured the aid
of an eloquent
whose sermon certainly rivited me.
The next day, meeting the boatswain
of the yard, who was a great critic, I
remarked to him. ‘That was a grand
sermon, Mr. S.. that we heard yester-
day.’ ‘Wcll. I don’t know, sir,’ he re-
plied. ‘I only hope he knows his own
business better than he knows mine.’
‘Why, what was the matter?’ ex-
claimed I. ‘Why. didn’t you hear? He
talked about sailshanging idly from
the mast; as if any landlubbcr ever
saw a sail hanging from anything but
a yard yet!”
_ A New Opening for Women.
A new Occupation for women is that
of house agent. One young woman
had made quite asuccess of it. She gets
two commissions, one from the real
estate agent for getting him a tenant
and the other from the tenant himself,
who is glad to pay her a small amount
for relieving him of the annoyance or
going over the house and approving or
disapprovingits condition.
So She Chose.
Isl-pa; “Yes—I like him well enough,
Minnie; but how did you ever happen
to marry a man a head shorter than
you are?” 1
Minnie: “I had to choose, Fred, bo-
lwccn a little man with a big salary
and a, big man with a little salary.”
a
American bishOp, .
ARIZONA’S MOUNTAIN PUZZLE.
150i: :2. Hole Through a. Lofty Peak, or
' Only a Natural Mirror?
‘For the last half century the Ameri-
can remdents of Tucson, Ariz., have
17303 trying to solve amystcry in the .
shape of what appears to be a hole
through a mountain peak in plain
sight of the town. In the rarefied air
it looks to be only a. short distance
away, when in reality it is styleast
forty miles. The earliest residents no-
ticed the phenomenon, and the only
difficulty that lay in the way of finding
out just what it was was the fact that
it was inaccessible, and when they
came anywhere near the spot the hole
disappeared from sight. In fact, it can
only be seen from within a. few miles of
Tucson, and this has led many people
to believe that it is not a hole at all.
By the aid of a. good marine telescope
the mountain can be brought to within
a. few miles, but not near enough to
tell the exact nature of the rock forma-
tion. Au astronomical telescope can
not be focused on it, as the mountain is
so near. A first. peep through the glass
would lead one to believe that there
was no mystery about it. The hole
appears as plain as possible, but several
days’ study of the spot will develop the
fact that the hole does not always look
the same. ‘
Many days when the sky is dark ba-
hind the mountain the hole will appear
a. brilliant white, like a snowdrift, and
on days when the sky is blue it will
often look so dark as to be almost in-
visible. These facts have led many to
think that it is an immense piece of
mica, lying with its polished surface
toward the sky and reflecting the cloud
formations of another part of the hori-
zon instead of being the light seen
through a hole. Viewed with the
naked eye, the hole simply appears as a
'whito spot, but the telescope reveals
pine trees and other details, although
very indistinctly.
The range of mOuntains in which the
strange peak can be seen is known as
the Catalinas, and numerous parties
have made the attempt to climb it, but
all have failed on account of the steep
and rugged precipices in the vicinity.
The peak is a. high one, and can be seen
from any point in the journey toward
it, but when ten miles out of Tucson the
hole can no longer be seen, even with
the aid of a glass. This can be ex-
plained on the mica theory, as a. sur~
face of that material would not reflect
a ray of light toward a person’s eye
after they got out of its angle of pro-
jection—San Francisco Call.
Dcpew’s Advice to Californians.
Naturally Mr. Depew had something
to say about California wines, while he
was on the Pacific Coast. and this is
how he said it, according to the San-
Francisco Call:
“The Californian who makes a light
. dry wine such as will meet the prevail-
ing and rapidly growing demand will
make the greatest Californian fortune,
a. greater fortune than any one yet
made, and limited only by the re
sources of his vineyards.
“There is too much alcohol in Cali-
fornia wine. The soil is so rich that it
makes sugar in the grapes, and the
sugar makes alcohol. The earlier ship-
ments of wine were especially faulty in
this regard. Now, this man whom I
speak of, who is to make the greatest
California fortune, will go a. little
higher up on the hillsides than the
vineyards of the present are to be found 3
he will not. cultivate so deeply, and he
will not be in such a hurry to get his
wine upon the market—he will give it
time. When he does this his name will
after awhile be known everywhere,
and only the capacity of his vineyards
will set the limit to his income.
“This is exactly ‘what I believe. i
have made a. study of these things. I
go about with my eyes open, and I have
been brought in touch with more wine-
drinkcrs and wine-drinking than most
men. I am hail fellow well met as well
on the Bowery as in the uptown clubs,
and I know something about these
things. It is not because a wine is
made in France that it is called for,
but because the French wines are what
the California wines might be made.” .
Mrs. Tom'Thumb Rides 9. Wheel,
It seems a long way back to the days
of Gen. Tom Thumb, the celebrated
dwarf, and it is interesting to learn
from America'that his wife, Mrs. Tom,
whom I recollect as a. most engaging
little lady, not much :taller than her
diminutive husband, is alive and very
well indeed. Moreover, I understand
she has taken to bicycling. Her present
husband, Count Magre, who‘is only 30
inches high, is an enthusiastic cyclist.
,He rides a. machine which, of course,
had to be especially made for him, and
cost 60 guineas.. It is probably the"
smallest bicycle in the world, for the
wheels are only fourteen inches, and the.
frame twelve. its weight is about nine
and a. half pounds—St. Paul’s.
Strangest in the \Vorld.
The strangest clock in‘ the world is
owned by a Hindu Prince. Here an or
dinary clock dial is a huge gong. Be-
neath, scattered on the ground, are
heaps of arti ficial skulls and the various
bones of human beings, twelve, in all.
When the hands mark the hour of one
the number of bones necessary to 3. hr.
man figure come together 'with a snap.
the skeleton, by invisible mechanism
springs to its feet, seizes a mallet.
strikes the gong one blow. and thei.
returns to its pile and falls to piece-s
At noon or midnight the spectacle pre
sented by the bones uniting to fern?- ‘
skeletons is described as very
inspiring. _~.
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The Cycle Girl's I‘l'him.
The latest whim of women cyclists
to have their wheels painted to z-n.;t-- .
their dress. In the London stregts A
seen cycles in various shades oz gre. .~.. .
brownilfilmd terra cotta. The 1nd:- .I
was staiiel by Lady VVari-viclz. vrm
summer had her wheel painted -. .
and who dressed in White from new 5.-
foot.
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cleaning purposes, IVORINE WASHING
POWDER is matchless.’
The splendid cake of. Toilet Soap in every package is the delight of
. the whole family.
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AN OLD TIME STORY.
[low Two Brothers Settled a Claim to :1
Lovely Quakeress.
The later assemblies of Annapolis.
Marlborough and Chestertown were
hardly more “in vogue” than the yearly
meetings of the Eastern Shore Quakers.
Their curious quaintness, and the pic-
turesque contrast they presented to the
radiant attire and libertine manners of
the world’s peOple, who minuetted and
coquetted in manor houses, and caroused
and ruffled in cockpits and bowling
courts, drew Romanists and “English
Catholics” to the doors of their sober
conventicle, and filled its leafy ap-
proaches with profane chariots and
chairs, and prancing steeplechasers,
and side-saddled palfreys. So it hap-
pened that, to the yearly meeting held
at Third Haven, near Talbot Court
House, in the year 1700, there came by
opposite ways, through groups of booths
erected by the graceless and irreverent
for the sale of trumpery and tipple, a
Quaker maiden mounted on a pillion
behind her father, and two plumed and
rapiered cavaliers gaily curveting.
The wimpled maid, whose overcoming
charms still bloom in tradition, was
Sarah Covington, of Somerset, and the
prancing cavaliers were the brothers,
Edward and Philemon Lloyd, sons of
Madam Hem-iota.» Marie, aforesaid.
Immediately the pretty lads, with a
suddenhequal passion, loved the wim-
pled maid, and yearned for her, and
each conceived a cunning purpose,
proper to the country and the time, and
shrewdly held his peace.
When the) meeting was over, the
brothers, each taking his cunning
scheme in hand, mounted and galloped
away, taking different ways;~and they
rode hard, laughing as they rode for
joy, at their boyish artifice. After lin-
gering for awhile in places remote from
the highway, where there was no fear
of discovery by any chance acquaint-
ance, and so that the slower Quaker
folk might have time to regain their
homes, they rode on into Somerset,—
and met at their charmer‘s gate. First
they swore, then they blushed, and
then they laughed loud and long. Phil
said: '
“Let her be for whichever, you or I,
did see her first,” and Ned, the elder,
and the heir, assented. Then said
Phil:
“N o sooner had I taken my place in
the meeting than I beheld the girl, and
loved her.”
And Ned said. “I passed the night
before the meeting at the ‘Peach-Blos-
som' farm, and at the foot of the
hill, turning into the gate at the water
mill, I saw the girl on a pillion behind
her father, and they inquired the way
to the meeting house, and I loved her.”
Then Phil rode back to Talbot, and
Ned dismounted at the gate, and led
his horse to the porch. Thus, in 1703,
Sarah Covington became the wife of
the heir and mistress of Wye House.
She, it was who, in 1733, built with
“English” brick the house of “Read-
boui no," in Queen Anne’s county, that
typical colonial mansion, still in excel-
lent preservation, and showing an im-
posing pile fitted with materials brought
over from England, where the noble
hall and the broad stairway of the.
period confer a. characteristic distino
tion.—The Century.
An Expensive History.
The most expensive book that was
ever published is the official history
of the war of the rebellion, which is
now issued by the government of the
United States. It has cost, up to date,
$2,334,328. 01’ this amount $1,184,291
has been. paid forprinting and bind—
ing alone.
t will require at least three years
longer and an appropriation of per-
haps $600,000 to complete the work, so
that the total cost will undoubtedly
reach nearly $3,000,000.
The history will consist of 112 vol-
umes, including an index and an atlas.
Each volume will. therefore, cost an
average of about $26,785.
‘ Copiesrare sent free to public libra~
ries. and 1,347,999 have already been
so distributed. The selling price of
the atlas is $22. The remainder of the
edition is sold at prices ranging from
50 cents to 90 cents per volume. There
does not seem to be a popular demand,
since only 71,194 copies have been sold,
for a total of $60,154.——Mail and Ex-
press.
THE ORIGINAL _
Stamped. as BOSS ,,
' Always the Same ii:
ARABS
OF THE DESERT.
Some of Their ‘Tcnts Cover an Area of
2,000 Square Feet.
Though nomad-s, the Arabs are ro-
vers from necessity ‘ rather than
choice, says Century, and where fod-
der and water are found in sufficient '
abundance they form permanent
camps. surrounding their tents witha
compound of durra stalks, and fre-
quently building stone or mud lodges
for their guests. When on the march
they are content with very small
tents, easily packed and carried, but
in their permanent camps their
homes are of regal proportions. Some
of the tents cover two thousand
square feet, and are about eleven
feet high in the center, sloping to five
feet or so at the sides. The tout-cloth
was, as usual, made of goat hair, and
parti-‘colored in broad stripes of black,
green, maroon, blue and white, while
from the seams depended tassels
from which other cloths are hung to
divide the tent into Separate apart-
ments when occupied by a family.
These tent—cloths are spun by the wo~
men and children, as also are their
saddle-cloths and trappings. The fur-
niture is simple. Rugs are spread
over the sand, and reclining cushions
scattered about them. In the corner
Is a zeer, or large water-pot, and by it
a. cubi yeh, or drinking cup, of brass
or copper. Round the side of the
tent is a row of painted boxes, in
which are packed the household goods
and chattels when moving, while a
few quaintly wrought lamps, and,
half buried in the sand, a large
earthen howl used as a. fireplace, com.
plete the list.
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’ ‘wEX‘E‘B REFUSES ALMS.
Yet There are Reasons Why Mendicants
Shun Him.
There is a young lawyer of New
York who has not refused alms for
years, but who is shunned by every
beggar who has met him.
He has hit upon the expedient of
giving but giving sparingly. ‘His pock-
ets are kept well supplied with small
coins, and for every mendicant who
approaches he produces a penny. He
reasons that if the man is starving, as
he claims, a penny will save his life“
and if he is a professional, as is more
likely, he has neither particularly in-
:onvenienced himself nor afforded a
beggar the means to gratify a thirst.
Long experience has given him an
nnerring instinct for a mendicant. He
can tell by the expression of a. man’s
face a hundred feet away if he intends
to solicit alms. When such a one ap-
proaches him and opens his mouth to
speak, he reaches in his pocket with-
out a word, hands him a penny and _
saunter-s on, not even looking at the
mendicant. Frequently the air grows
blue behind him, and a string of earn-
est oaths pursues him from the beggar
whom he has not even given the satis-
faction of telling a hard-luck tale.—
New York Mail and Express.
A Landmark Going.
With the passing of the 01d four-
story brown-stone house at N ineteenth'
street and Broadway, which was once
the home of Peter Goelet, and the erec-
tion of a modern ofiice building on the
site, New York loses a familiar land—
mark and country visitors the sugges-
tion of home which the cow occasional-
ly seen in the yard gave to them. The
cow hasn’t been seen for several years,
but there was a time when it was as
much of a curiosity to strangers in :2.-.‘
city as if it had been a. strange animal
from a. circus.
Delmonico’s is another landmark that
is soon to disappear. When this famous
old restaurant moves up town it will
leave behind the traditions that are
now history. During the past two
years half a dozen of the historical old
hotels in this city have been torn down
and their sites buried under big office
buildings.——New York Sun. -
The Lofty Blind. _
A lofty mind always thinks nobl y, it
easily creates vivid, agreeable, and nat-
ural fancies, places them in their best
lights, clothes them with all appropri-
ate adornments, studies others’ tastes,
and clears away from its own thoughts .
all that is useless and disagreeable.~
Rochel’oucauld.
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