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‘Vonien Voters in Europe.
The only countries in Europe where
women vote to any extent. in
those places that we would least ex-
pect it; for example, in Finland and
Iceland. On the Continent the woman
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suffrage movement has made no gr. at .
headway of late years, says the Chan»
tauquan, The women have ‘no voting
privileges to speak of in either Fran-cc-
or Germany.
In several European countries they
are allowed to vote by proxy. Thus,
in the Australian provinces women
can vote for members of the provin-
cial and imperial Parliaments, only by
proxy. They can vote in person at lo-
cal elections. The same is true of
Russia, where women who are heads
of households vote at local elections.
As to the widows, they have the
right to vote at municipal elections in
Belgium, while in Italy they can you:
for members of Parliament.
. The Ladvls Age.
The Prince of Viales,
years ago, met a charming young lady
well known in London society, at
Hamburg. “You are young enough,”
he said, in the course of conversation,
“for me to be able to ask your age.”
“Twenty-five,” was the ready reply.
This summer his royal liighness met
the lady again. “What,” he asked
again, with a humorous smile, “is
your age, I wonder?” "Twenty-five,”
again said the lady. “But you said
that the last time I met you,” re-
marked the prince, with a smile.
“Well, sir,” laughed the lady, “and
would you have me contradict my-
self ?"—~Lady’s Pictorial.
about five
Rare Skill.
Probably the most remarkable
drummer who ever lived was John
Henri, the famous troubadour—major
of the Emperor Napoleon. One of his
feats was to play. on fifteen different-
ly toned drums at the same time in so
soft and harmonious a manner that,
instead of the deafening uproar that
might have been expected, the effect
was that of a novel and complete in-
strument. In playinghe passed from
one drum to the other with such won~
derful quickness that the eyes of the
spectators could hardly follow the
movements of his hands.and body.
\Veak 011 Geography.
Little things illustrate certain Eng-
lishmen’s knowledge of American geog-
raphy very picturesquely. An Eng‘
lishman who had taken the Pacific ex«
press at Philadelphia called out on go-
ing to bed before the train started:
“Porta-h! Portah!”
The porter came. “What is it, sir?”
the said. U
"Please wake me up when we get to
SanFrancisco, you know,” said the
Englishman—Pittsburg Bulletin.
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THE MIGHTY OCEANIC.‘
The New ‘Vliiaté Star Liner Win Exceed in
Length the Famous Grant-Eastern.
‘ The building of the Oceanic, the
greatest of ocean steamships, has beer
begun. According to the advices re
ceived by New York officers of the
White Star Line, the longest of ship
kcels for their new passenger steamei
is now being laid at Belfast, on the
ways of Harland & lVolft‘, the ship
builders who have the contract for the
construction of the Oceanic.
When the Great Eastern, the con-
spicuous wonder in shipbuilding,
proved a signal failure as a practical
and paying ocean carrier, it was said
by shipbuilders that never again
would such a monster be, attempted}
that the available length of steamshi )5
had been overstepped by her (380 feet,
and that thereafter the length of both
large freigiters and passenger steam.
crs would more nearly approach 50C
than 730 feet.
They were wrong, for experience
since that time has shown the practi.
cability, in economy, speed and safety.
of ships beyond 500 feet in length.
After the condemnation of the Great
Eastern. with her length of 680. feet,
there was for a time a tendency to-
ward ships 200 feet shorter, and then a
return to longer models. The City of
Rome was built 561 feet long, and the
Lu-cania and Campania each 620 feet.
The St. Louis and St. Paul are each
555 feet. and the Kaiser \Vilhelm, now
being constructed, will . be 650 feet.
Then comes the Oceanic, the largest of
them all, measuring 704 feet, or twen-
ty—four feet more than the wonder-in-
spiring Great Eastern.
{er total depth will be about the
same as the Great Eastern’s, a little
more than fifty feet, with the same
mean draught of twenty-five feet. Her
beam will be a little less than the
eighty-three feet of her great predeces
sor.
As all needed preparation for the
building of the Oceanic has been made,
there is expected to be no delay, but
the construction will go steadily *on,
and if present plans are carried out
she will be launched next January,
and in about one year from now will
be stretching her great length over the
Atlantic waves on her first voyage.
In appearance and interior arrange—
ments the Oceanic will be very like the
Teutonic and Majestic, only on en-
larged lines, which will add to conven-
ience and comfort.
The steamship will have greatly en-
larged engines, in consequence of
which the broken and rebroken record
of transatlantic time is expected to
suffer a startling reduction. Just what
the speed will be the officers of the
line are not prepared to say, but there
is a rumor that the Oceanic will go
from Liverpool to New York inside of
four days, and this without sacrifice to
comfort or safety. -
A great ship on the water, with half
her bulk out of sight, does not impress
the observer with the magnitude of
her dimensions, but if placed on land
besidefamiliar objects her size is bet-
ter appreciaterd.
The Mahogany Tree,
It will undoubtedly be news to many
that the vast mahogany forests of Nic-
aragua are controlled in Boston. The
cutting and shipping of the immense
exports from that country is a great
enterprise in itself, to say nothing of
bringing it here and manufacturing it
into lumber. One steamer plies regu-
larly between Boston and Central
America engaged in this trade.
Employed in Nicaragua and the Uni-
ted States of Colombia are from 1,000
to 1,500 native workmen and lumber—
nien. These are under American
bosses. The trees from whichmahog-
any furniture is made vary in age and
size. When cut they vary in age from.
twenty-five to thirty years, and some
of them are even seventy-five years
old. They. average twenty-five inches
or more in diameter, and run as large
as forty inches, and even more. For
every mahogany tree that is out .two
others are planted, and thus the for-
ests are practically inexhaustible-—
Boston Transcript.
The Cheese.
The proper degree of formality ob-
served at the‘W’hite House, so far as
the officials are concerned, is some-
times in contrast with the procedure in
earlier days. In. recently published
recollections of a long life, the anther
describes a scene he witnessed at the
White House in President VanBuren's
time. In honor of the inauguration, a
cheese had been sent to the new chief
magistrate. It was “the size of a
large, round table.” Pieces of it, to-
gethcr with crackers, were handed
round to persons assembled. “The
whole house and almost the whole city
was redolent of cheese, fragments of
it lying everywhere on the streets.”
All this may seem to have brought the
President ”nearer the people, but the
country can today quite appropriately
dispense with that form of paternal-
ism.
Language Lesson.
“Mamma, if I had a hat before I
had this one it‘s all right to say that’s
the hat I had had, isn’t it?"
“Certainly, Johnny.”
“And if that hat once had a hole in
it and I had it mended I could say it
had had a hole in it, couldn’t I?”
“Yes, there would be nothing incor-
rect in that.”
“Then it’d be good English to say
that the hat I had had had had a hole
in it, wouldn’t it?”
“Johnny, you make my head ache.”
-——Chicago Tribune.
A Quick Deduction.
“This boat seems pretty cranky.
she perfectly safe for two?”
"Married or single?"
"Married.” -
“Yep.” -.\' 'w York Journal.
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VOTING FOR A POSTMASTER.
A Way 1:0 Solve a Problem that “'il
Provo Popular.
Huntington, New York, Republican:
have gone about naming a candidatt
for the local Postmastership in a bus
mess-like fashion. The candidates and
their friends have agreed to submit
the question to a vote. The only vo't
crs eligible are to. be those Republi
cans who vote-d within the clectio-r
districts of Huntington town embracc‘t'
Within the nostoffice district of Hunt
jngton town. This includes the Second
and Third Election Districts. ‘
Huntington politicians are profiting.
by the experiences of the Democrat:
in different parts of the country. Un
der Cleveland's first administration 2‘
Republican held the fat. office of Post
master of Babylon the whole term
notwithstanding be sent in his resig
nation, because the local Democracy
was unable to agree on a candidate.
There is no dearth of candidates iL
Huntington. Only one man can go!
the place. All dog-in-the-inanger t.‘I('A
tics have been eliminated from 11:;-
race. The man who receives t3:.=
greatest number of votes from his fel-
. low-Itepublicans will be unanimously
recommended for the place.
_ To make everything fair and above-
board a committee was appointed in
each election district to prepare and
publish an election notice. This notice
reads: .
“The vote will be by ballot, and
upon each ballot will be written or
printed the name of the person when]
the voter wishes to be appointed post-
master.”
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“Of those who habitually patronia ‘
the Huntington Post-Office, the follow-
ing will be entitled to vote:
First, All Republican voters.”
“Second, All who (whatever their
past party affiliations) are willing to
declare that they are now in sympa-
thy with and approve of the political
principles of the Republican party.
William S. Funnell and Charles E.
Sammis will act as inspectors at such
election. All questions as to voting
shall be decided by. the inspectors.”
“The result of the election will be
certified by the inspectors.”
There are a. few Republicans in. the
town who contend that this election
will not settle anything. These few
object to retiring from local politics
the question of “pull.” They prefer to
leave the question of office open to the
men with the strongest friends at
court. The great majority, however,
have agreed that the matter be finally
submitted to a vote and that the voice
of the Republicans thus expressed be
finaL
None but; the Deaf Girl Understood.
It doesn’t always pay to express
your inmost thought even guardedly in
the presence of deaf mutes.’
A devoted couple who, apparently,
had been long separated, were thrust
into each other’s company at a largely
attended reception. The lady who told
the story said that she was present in
company with an educated deaf girl.
The happy reunited pair displayed
fully the thoughts that were in their.
hearts by the beam upon their counte-
mnces. Suddenly the young man
drew near to the one he adored, and
said in a low tone, inaudible to those
about him, a few seemingly infection-
ate words.
The deaf girl watched the proceed—
ings with intensest interest, "and sud-
denly broke into a broad grin. Her
companion inquired what it was 'that
amused her. She turned about so that
the couple could not see her and re-
plied:
“That man said, ‘If all these people
were not here I’d kiss you. If they
don’t get out of the way pretty soon
I shall have to do it before them.’ The
girl replied, ‘Then I shall scream.’ "
The deaf girl understood the words
by the motion of their lips—Boston
Evening Record.
Queen Victoria's Favorite Apple.
In Montgomery county, Virginia, on
an extensive plateau of a spur of the
Blue Ridge,” an apple is raised that in
size, symmetry and flavor can only be
Sill'DllSSCtl, if surpassed at all, by the
genuine Albemarle pippin. Unfortu—
nately, it. would seem that the real
home of this last most delicious fruit
it limited to a small area around Rock-
fish Gap, partly in Albemarle and
partly in Nelson county. More than
forty years ago a barrel or two of the
Albemarlc pippius were sent as a pres-
ent to Queen Victoria, and from that
day to this it is the favorite apple at
her court.—Lynchburg News.
A High Roller.
A country couple, newly married,
went to a Boston restaurant the other
day, and the groom called for some
wine. When asked what kind, he re-
plied:
"We want that kind of wine where
the cork busts out and the stud begins
to bile and keeps on bilin’ till you get
the worth of your money."—Boston
Post.
A Noble Resolve.
“Why,” asked the friend of the lady
from Boston, “why did she marry so
illiterate a person?”
“To reform him,” said the other
friend of the lady from Boston. “She
told me that it should be her sacred
duty to devote her life to reclaiming
him from his habit of using the singu-
lar verb with the plural noun.”—ln-
dianapolis Journal.
Sisterly Admiration.
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A raw Scotch lad mined the Volun-
teers, and on the first parade day his
sister came with is mother to see the
regiment.
On the march-past Jack was out of
step.
“Look, mither,” said his sister,
“they’re a.’ cot of step but our J ock!"--
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NEW YORK’S GREA'I PARK.
The Englishman in No “’uy Abaslied the
Slirewd American.
An Englishman was showing his
friend, an American, through he
houses of Parliament, in London, the
meanwhile commenting in a somewhat
arrogant ' manner on what he was
pleased to term the superiority of the
English public buildings and parks.
“There,” he exclaimed, “is our mag:
niiicent Thames Embankment, a de-
lightful spot! Why, you have nothing
in Your country to compare with it,
especially in that great New York city;
then, again, every gentleman owns an
estate, and let me assure you, such es-
tates are no small bits of property.”
This went on for a considerable
time, until the American, growing
tired, said, “But, Lord de T.. you have
travelled in our country, have you
not?” _ ’
“0h, S'ES, my dear sir; right across
it.”
“Well, then, you should have a fair
idea of its ize.”
“Very big place, sir, very big.”
“And you know New York city quite
well, eh?”
“0h, yes—yes indeed.”
“Well, then, you see, we di.‘._-'i
vant anything in the line of parks in
New York, with, of course, the excep-
tion of a few squares; but outside oi
the city we wanted a park, and so we
decided to use the United States as :I
park for New York city.”
“Dear me, how extravagant.”
“Not at all, sir; why, we even con—
templated floating the British Isles
over and anchoring them for a short
distance outside the city‘s harbor as a"
sort of breakwater, you know.”
I’residents’ Scrapbooks.
Among the things which every Pres—
ident carries away with. him from the
thite House, says the New York Post,
is a set of scrap books containing the
clippings, editorial and news items
concerning the Administration during
its history. The work of selecting
these clippings is the greater part of
the duty of one clerk, who receives
$2,000 a year, and the books in which
they are pasted cost about $4 each. A
clerk at the White House is authority
for the statement that 'upon just one
occasion in his Administration has
Mr. Cleveland asked to see any of
these books, and yet the scrap book in-
stitution has come down from early
times, and no reformer probably will
ever change the custom.
an easy way out of this world
General Thaddeus H. Stanton, the
‘Paymaster-General of the Army, who
knows more Indians than any officer
in the service since the death of George
Crook, related, among a number of oth-
ers, the following aneCdote of his early
Western days:
He called at Fort Brydger, in Wy-
oming, about twenty years ago to see
an old friend named Hastings, who
was one of the custodians of the aban-
doned post. He met a man named
Williams and inquired for Hastings.
“Oh, Hastings is dead,” said Wil-
liams.
“Dead!” said Stanton
“What did he die of ?”
“Committed suicide,” said Williams.
“"he devil you say!” responded Sta :1-
ton. “How did he commit suicide?"
“He called me a liar,” answerer Wil-
liams—St. Louis Republican.
in surprise.
. A Good Beginning.
Doctor——What_ your husband really
wants, madam, is complete rest. Now.
if you could only— _
Lady—But he won’t listen to me, doc-
tor. . .
Doctor—Ah! that’s a. very good be-
ginning.
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A SHREWD DEVICE.
There “'as :2 Lane KVIien Banking in
Arkansas ‘l'us Rather Exciting.
Banking in the northern part of Ar-
kansas was a hazardous business it
the early days, and in some of the
towns where there are no railway con
necticns it is so Still.
“Wine we borrowed money for out
bank.” said a banker to a representa-
tive of the Free~ Press with whom he
was talking over old times, “I used to
go to the neighboring town and get
the gold. Then I had to carry it by
stage over the mountains to our place.
Of course. I took mighty good care
that no one should know, if' I could
help it, just when I was to make these
trips.
, “At first I would take a bag of gold,
just as itiwas given me in the bank,
put it on the seat of the stage, place a
rug over it, and use it for a pillow,
endeavor-mg to snatch a. little sleep
during that long night ride. One day
somehow I got nervous. I guess it
was that mysterious sixth sense some
people talk about that worried me.
Anyhow, I was just trembling all over
when I thought of the journey and the
gold. I never felt the least bit appre-
hensive before. So I went to the gro-
cer’s and bought a bag of flour,
poured out a portion of the contents,
and put the bag of gold well into the
center of the bag of flour.
“The stage rattled off, and I used my
bag of flour for a. pillow. I dozed ed
a bit, I guess, and was rudely awak-
ened by the horse being jerked up.
The next moment we—there were two
other passengers—heard that dreaded:
' “ ‘Hands up!’
“We didn’t . hesitate. and up went
our arms. They went through us all
and got several dollars and a couple
of watches. Then they examined the
grips and looked at the bag. I trem-
bled as they opened it and the flour
poured out. To my joy they did not
examine the bag further. Finally
they departed, and I tied up the bag
with feelings of profound gratitude, for
bad they taken the gold I would have
been financially ruined.”—-Detroit Free
Press. ‘
A DIere hiattex of Form.
Potentate—“Have you ordered the
new warships?”
Prime Minister—“Yes, sire.”
“Have you given directions to in—
crease the size of our standing army 2”
“Yes, sire.”
“Have you doubled our usual order
for arms and ammunition?”
“Yes, sire.”
“Have you hurled defiance at our
enemies ’3”
"Yes, sire.” ,
“Have you caused the publication of
the rumor that we are simply itching
for a fight, and don’t particularly
mind who knocks the chip off of our
shoulder?” ‘
“ch, sire.”
“‘Then fix the stamp of our royal in-
dorseincnt to the plans of the Univer-
sal Peace Congress.”——New York J our-
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Gullantry Among Them.
'The gray wolf is a creature of the
storm, many think, because it is so
fierce, and because, like the eagle, it
plays in strong winds, seeking the ex-
posed places, and delighting to get on
some point of rocks where the gal-.2
blows most fiercely. One man says in
the Forest and Stream that it requires:
an expert to distinguish between a
wolf’s howl and the shrieking of a
high wind.
Wolves are good husbands, provid
ing food for their families with the
utmost care, hunting far and near, in
hard times raiding sheep folds and the
deer covers with an impartiality that
rouses the farmer and the sportsman.
Men who hunt for business kill the
wolves in a businesslike way. They
shoot a cow or deer, sprinkle strych-
nine on the flesh. and then go away.
Frequently wolves are near by watch-
but the man does not shoot them.
When the man goes the wolves come,
eat some of the meal, and then go tum-
bling over the ground in mortal agony.
Wolves are knowing beasts. Artifi-
cial trap baits have few charms for
them. save when they can come in
over the back of a pen and take the
meat without danger. They hunt in
packs, led by some beast of great
prowess, that has gained his leader-
ship by fighting all the wolves in the
pack. The male wolf will not bite a
female wolf. . - L ‘
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’35:. on the Bill oi'Eure.
The tourist fro-m the east who had
said to the waiter:
“Bring me a welsh—rabbit, please.”
"he waiter was gone a long time and
finally returned with the proprietor.
“Mister,” inquired the latter, “are
you the man that wanted some Welsh
rabbit?"
“Yes," replied the traveler.
.“ 1(ell. sir,” rejoined the proprietor,
casually placing his hand on his hip
pocket, “we don’t keep no imported
game at this house. If plain Ameri-
can jack rabbit ain’t good enough for
you—" ‘ '
“Why, yes,” gasped the terrified cus-
tomer, “bring me a. j—j——jack rabbit!”
—Chicago Tribune.
Refused a Certificate.
Mrs. Louise Pitt Yocum, superin
tendent of schools in Dolores county,
001., has refused a teacher’s certificate
to Professor Victor C. McGirr, princi4
pal of the Rico Public School, because
he smokes. Her position is that a per-
son who smokes is disqualified from
teaching in the public schools of Colo-
rado, because teach-ersin that State
are required by law to instruct the
children against the use of tobacco.
- sir. :sl’ctlirr. who is a graduate of To-
ronto Ifnivcrsity, will, it is said, ap-
peal to the State Board of Education.
--.\'cw York Tribune.
“Go.
Their Cries Like the Slirieks of the \\'ind~_
ing the hunter while- he is at work,’
dropped into the Arizona restaurant .
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