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Japanese Girls.

The Japanese eirl, when she goes into com
pany, paints her face white, her lips and the
corners Of her eyes red, with two slate-colored
spots on her forehead. She would be thought
immodest if she did not do so, as being so con
ceited as to think her complexion did not need
improvement.
The children's shoes are made of blocks of
wood secured with cord. The stocking resem-
bles a mitten, having a separable place for the
great toe. AS these shoes are lifted only by the
toes, the heels make q rafting sound as the
owners walk, which is quite stunning in a
crowd.
They are not worn in the house. as they would
injure the soft straw mats with which the floors
are covered. You may leave your shoes at the
door. The beauty of the human foot is seen IN
ing nails, no distorted joints. Our toes are
cramped until they are doforned, and are in
danger of extinction. The Japanese have the
full use of their toes, and to them they are al
most like fingers. Nearly every mechanic
makes use Of his toes in holding his work, and |
have dragged a Japanese youth across a plat
form by his merely holding on with his toes.
Every toe is fully developed, Their shoes cost
two cents and will last six months.
The babies are taken care of on the backs of
older children, to which they are fastened by
loose bands. You will see a dozen little girls
with babies asleep on their backs engaged in
playing battledore, the babies heads bobbing up
and down. This is better than bowling in a
cradle. The baby sees everything, goes every
where, gets plenty of pure air, and the sister
who carries it gets her shoulders braced back,
and doubtless some lessons in patience. 1t is
funny to see the little tots, when they begin to
run alone, carrying their dolls on their backs.
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twenty acres for ten years. These families are
to be from the South. l have an utter abhor-
renee of convict labor"
"What will be the estimated cost of your vari-
Gus enterprises thereY 81
at will be about one-tenth what it would cost
in any other place. In other words, it will cost
about 81, 800, 60O.r
Have you any other mineral land besides
this9'
We'll, I have under my control 100, 900 acres
in eastern Kentucky, and $4,000 acres in Cum
berland county. this State.'
We're you originally from England, Miss st.
Pierre!'
"Oh, no. I was born in Louisiana, but, having
spent most Of my life abroad, a great many PEG
pie are of the opinion that 1 am English. My
father died when | was about seventeen years
old, and, having been in his confidence, was
thoroughly acquainted with his business, and,
consequently, naturally took charge of matters.
My mother died later on, and then l went to
Europe"
Miss st. Pierre spends most of her winters in
Washington and New York. She comes South
during the summer to attend to her business in
the mountains.
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Where are they-the friends of my childhood en-
chantedl-
The clear, laughing eyes looking back in my own,
And the warm, chubby fingers my palms have so
wanted,
AS when we raced over
Pink pastures Of clover,
And Knocked the quails whirr, and the burnble-bee's
drone?
Havethe breezes Of time blown their blossomy faces
Forever adrift down the years that are fownl
Am never to see them romp back to their places
Where over the meadow,
In sunshine and shadow,
The meadow-larks trill, and the humble bees drone!
Where are they3 All! dim in the dusk lies the clover
The whippoorwill's call has a %sorrowful tone,
And the dove'sI have wept at it over and over
1 want the glad lustre
OF youth, and the cluster
Offaces asleep where the humble bees drone!
james Whitcomb Riley.
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WHIST STORIES.
Some of the Celebrated Players of theL Last
Generation.

Temple Bar.
The whist players of the last generation were
Lord Granville, General Arson, Lord Henry
Bentinck and Henry Lord de Ros. Mr.. Hay
ward says that great whist players are like rival
beauties. Rarely will one admit the distin-
guished merit of another. Lord Henry Ben
timex, when asked about the players at the
Portland (Mr. Clay was one of them, answered.,
'They none of them know anything about it ex-
cept young Jones (CavendishG" who, he admit
ted, had some ideas on the subject. Mr.. Hay
ward gives q curious instance of the late Lord
Granville's devotion to whist: Intending to set
out in the course of the afternoon for Paris, he
ordered his carriage and four posters to be at
Graham's at 4. They were kept waiting till 10,
when he said he should not be ready for another
hour or two, and that the horses had better be
changed. VIXEN the party rose they were up to
their ankles in cards, and the ambassador, it
was reported, was a loser to the tune of $751; 900
or Gl0, 000."
We have defended, to the best Of our ability,
the hunting parsons of a former generation, but
we have nothing to say in defense of such an
outrage as some c~lergymen were guilty of &C
cording to Mr.. Hayward, whose uncle, Mr..
Abraham, seems to have been one of the party.
Mr.. Hayward writes: THE clergy in the west
of England were formerly devoted to whist.
About the beginning of the century there was a
whist club in a country town of Somersetshire,
composed mostly of clergymen, that met every
Sunday evening in the back parlor of a BARRIERS.
Four of these were acting as pall-bearers at the
AuuG al VI q LONO1CAo OlOb1CA VIC q ACl0y W
cured from the grave not being ready, and the
coffin was put down in the chanceL By way of
willing away their time one of them produced a
pack of cards from his pocket and proposed a rub
ber." When the sexton came to announce the
preparations were complete he found these
clerical worthless deep in their game, using
the coffin as their table. We hope the sexton
surprised them as much as another sexton did a
eurate at his first funeral, when he walked up to
him with the appalling announcement: please,
sir, the ~corpse's father wishes to speak to you"
Here is another grim story about whist related
by Mr.. Rikes in his diary respecting the father
of the late lamented Mr.. George Payne: One
evening, I went into Waitress Club, where l
found Mr.. George Payne waiting to make a rub
Der at whist; others soon. arrived, and the play
began. Nothing remarkable passed, except that
Mr.. Payne was anxious to continue the game,
and though We played till 4 or 5 o'clock, seemed
disappointed at the party breaking up. 1 went
home to bed, and soon after 10 o'clock my serv-
ant Chapman came into my room to tell me that
Mr.. Payne mad been that morning shot in a duel
on Putney Heath. Thus he had been purposely
playing all the night in order to pass the time
till he was summoned into eternity, and GER
tainly DO one could have told by his manner
that he had such an awful prospect in view"
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Gambetta's Home.


I III ~
The house where Gambetta died. at Vile
d'Avray, near Paris, is to be bought by a num-
Der of his friends and refurnished as in his life
time. AT present the rooms are empty, save for
pictures and masses of faded memorial wreaths
and garlands, remnants from the funeral. In
the drawing room is a big sarcophagus of dried
flowers, arranged by admirers on the ami
versary of their heros death, while photographs
of the French statesman in the tribune and
lying in state as a corpse face each other on the
walls. Gambetta's bed room contains another
faded floral tomb on the spot where the bed
stood, and opposite hangs a huge yellow i'm
mortal crown sent by Alsace, The outlying
grounds and buildings Of Les Jardies are to be
sold, including the little garden pavilion which
Gambetta had made into a rustic library. Wis
itors are generally admitted into the house,
but the housekeeper declares, according to NJ
Claretie, of the Temps, that she has to keep a
sharp watch on the English, who would rob the
garden of every flower and twig to carry away
as souvenirs.
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The Lake of Como.
November ATLANTIC.

November AtIantlC-
The Lake of Como is no mountain nymph, but
is like Titian's Venus lying naked on a magnif-
cent couch, with pearls braided in her hair. The
sheet of water is shaped like a long fish with
a cloyen tail, the three portions bong of about
equal size, the lower ones divided by a broad
wedge OF land, the base of which, to the south
ward, is known as the Brianza, the point being
the promontory of Bellagio. Each has its char
acteristics. The two lower bays or branches are
called, respectively, the lakes of Lecco and
Como, the latter giving its name and fame to
the whole expanse. There are none of the grand
and rugged features of Lago Maggiore here; tho
prospect is soft and alluring, embellished by two
thousand years of cherished care. The ancients
were drawn hither from distant parts of Italy,
and from the days of Augustus to our own, the
most celebrated statesmen and men of letters
have borne witness, in prose and verse, to that
witchery which Ugo Foscolo declared distracted
him from his work.
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RICH MISS ST. PIERRE.
What a Woman Is Doing to Develop the
Hidden Wealth of the South.
Chattanooga Democrat.

Chattanooga Democrat.
Miss Maud st. Pierre, the lady who has be-
come somewhat prominent in this vicinity from
the fact that she is dealing extensively in min
ing and mineral lands, is in the city. Yesterday
morning a reporter called on her for the purpose
of learning something of her private secretary,
John A. Neal, who disappeared last summer,
and to find out her plans and operations in vari
Gus industrial pursuits upon which she has en-
barked. Miss st. Pierre is a rather tall, fine
looking lady, with erect carriage, a keen eye
and a perceptible something about her which
Enthusiastically means business. She advanced
without hesitation, shook hands with the re-
porter and sat down. To a question concerning
Neal she replied: II have never been able to
learn anything definite about Mr.. Neal, although
l have left no stone unturned to discover him.
He was last seen seated upon a rock near the
top of the mountain, two or three miles from
Anderson. There we found on the ground
sprigs of oats and flowers which he had worn on
the lapel of his coat. This was the last real clew
we have had. l haveh had detectives working up
the case, have ransacked every nook and Granny
in the mountains for him, but have never been
able to find him"
'Teli me of your mineral land in Franklin
county"
"Well, I have purchased about $4,000 acres of
land in Franklin county. | have in that prop
erty endless quantities Of iron ore, coal, marble,
sandstone and timber. There are all through
the South uumberless white families who,
through force of circumstances and ignorance,
are unable to- make a decent livelihood. intend
to form colonies, and give them homes and EN-
ploymeut. will give each family the timber 20
build a house and then give them q lease GA
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mean that this place will one day be the Mecca of the
literary %pilgrim?' Yes, yes, yes he said, in very joy
that 1 had understood him, and he patted my shoulder
and shook my hand in a childish fever of delight
ITO answer a number of inquiries about the Able
Liszt, ~ says the World Nondon), 81 beg to state that
1 saw him at Bayreuth. He had the Baronne Meyen-
dorff on his arm, and, although not so vigorous as he
was twenty years ago, is far from broken down or
blind. He is old, that is true, but all the rest is exag-
%geration. Anent poor Frederic Clay, I can only give
the words of a great and celebrated friend of mine;
He remains the same. Full of intelligence, but can
not speak or frame coherent words in writing. They
seem now to think further recovery hopeless. What
a cruel fate for one so bright, gifted and sweet
naturedin
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THE T-HUNDERER's ORIGIN.
John Walters Cranky Paper That Became
the London ''Times."

the london 'IImeS."
From James Parton's Captains of Industry"
The starting of this great newspaper ninety
nine years ago was q mere incident in the devel-
opment OF another business. Almost every one
VINO has stood in & printing office watching com
positors set up type must have sometimes asked
himself, Why not have whole words cast together
instead of obliging the printer to pick up each
letter separately! Such words as and, "the,"
but IF" lis, and even larger words, like
although" and Notwithstanding, occur very
often i'll all compositions. How easy it would be,
inexperienced persons think, to take up a long
word, such as Extraordinary" and place it in
position in one stroke In the year 1885 there
was a printer named John Walter, well estab-
lished in business who was fully resolved on
giving the system a trial. At great expense and
trouble he had all the commonest words and
phrases cast together. He would give his type
founder an order tike this; ''Send me a hun
dredweight, made up in separate pounds, Of heat,
cold, wet, dry, murder, fire, dreadful robbery,
atrocious outrage, fatal calamity and alarming
explosion" This system he called topographic
printing. In order to give publicity to the new
system on which he held a patent, as well as
afford it a fuller trial, he started a newspaper,
which he called the Daily Universal Register.
The newspaper had some little success from the
beginning, but the topographic system would
not work. Not only did the compositors place
obstacles in its way, but the system itself pre-
scented difficulties which neither John Walter
nor any subsequent eXperimenter has been able
W t1A ACbAA
'"The whole English language" said Walter,
in one of his numerous addresses to the public,
LAY before me in a confused arrangement. 1t
consisted of about ninety thousand words. This
multitudinous mass l reduced to about nine
thousand by separating the parcels and remov-
ing obsolete words, technical terms and com
mon examinations" After years of labor this
most resolute and tenacious man was obliged to
give it up; it was too expensive, too cumber-
some, too difficult. 1t required a vast amount of
space, and, in short, it was a system which
could not and cannot be worked to profit. But
though the Geographic printing was a failure,
the Daily Universal Register proved more and
more successful. 1t was a dingy little sheet,
about twice as large as a sheet of f~oolscap, with
out a word of editorial and containing a small
number of weil-selected paragraphs and news.
1t had, also, occasionally, a short notice of the
plays of the night before and a few items of
what we now call society gossip. The advertise
ments, after the paper had been in existence
three years, averaged about fifty a-day, most of
them very short. Its price was threepence,
English, equal to about twelve cents of our pres
ent currency. The paper upon which it was
printed was coarse and cheap. In the third year
of its existence, on the LIST of January, 1888, the
name was changed to the Times.
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WOMEN CASHIERS.
They Are Never Known 70 Be Dishonest, and
Are Generally Happy and Useful.
Buffalo Express.
D women emhezzle2g

do women embezzle}'
mo, they don't. Inever knew q woman who
handled other peoples money to steal one cent.
| have employed women as cashiers for years.
They are quicker at making change than men;
they will detect counterfeit money quicker; they
keep their cash accounts clearer, and don't want
to run the whole store, as men do" So said one
of Buffalos heaviest dry goods merchants to a
reporter. Eyes, they are invariably happy. l
have heard of young women as clerks who had
pilfered small articles-collars, handkerchiefs
etc. but the cases are rare. Most saleswomen
and cashiers in Buffalo live at home, and keep
off the streets at night. Many belong to good
families and to churches. They are in every
sense respectable.
Newspapers nowadays are full of wicked
embezzlements Bank presidents run away
with fortunes, wreck homes, families, lives,
regulations, and public institutions. Cashiers
gamble, steal, abscond, speculate and use money
intrusted to them by poor working people. They
lie, Ensemble, deceive, and finally rob the direc-
tors of the corporations employing them; but
women do not steal. Look at the suicides caused
by all these breaches of trust! See the beggars
these sleek-tongued Williams have made in two
cities during the past week-but women do not
embezale.
81 have a cashier now who is the shrewdest
woman l ever knew. She sits up there where
the cash balls roll in, evidently kept busy max
ing change, But that young woman knows all
that is going on at every counter of this large
store. She catches shoplifters, reports irregu-
larities among clerks, and detects every little de-
vice invented by the statesmen to beat us or our
customers. She is not a spy, or a 'tattle-tale.
The crookedness she reports among clerks
would affect her if allowed to pass.
She often calls me up and points out
some mistake in the cash check, saying, for in
stance, that has occurred five times this week
Nj. -i is very careless So you see she
does not accuse him of willful mistakes in max
ing out his checks, but I understand her and APP
ply the proper remedy.
ga cashiers place is a hard one. She sits up
there alone, generally; she must be quick to make
change, and the knowledge that every cent lost
comes out of her SIS or SO a week naturally tends
to make her nervous. She must watch for mutt
lated, punched and plugged coins; and for
counterfeit pieces and bad bills. The checks &C
comparing the cash are invariably written in
haste, are often illegible, and if she does not
read the figures correctly is liable to send back
too much change.
"But you asked me if women embezzle. Never
have l known a single case; never have l heard
of one. L can not say that of men. have en-
ployed four young men at different times. One
left me, one was not quick enough and the other
two robbed me-" .
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THE FAvORITE CoLoRs.
Red and Blue in Every Variation-An Odd
Costume.
New York Truth.

New York Truth.
Even the most careless observer can not but
notice, in looking at the novelties of the early
autumnal season, the bizarre and brilliant color
ing and effects. We hear of imaginations run
ming riot, and we see an example of it in the
costumes, wraps and dress goods imported for
the winter. Red and blue, in every shade and
combination, are the favorite colors, and New
York will rejoice in gayer birds and plumage the
coming winter than it has ever seen before.
Take, for instance, q costume just finished of
this rough bourette material, now so fashiona-
BILE. The overdress of dark blue was at first to
be made over a garnet plush skirt, but a Mexi-
can or Indian blanket caught the eye of the
dressmaker, who decided, instead, with a happy
inspiration, that half this serape, that FORUM
ately for the purpose, had been sewed in the
middle, should be used for the skirt. The blan-
ket was a remarkably fine one, and is used in
Mexico for an overcoat or covering, an aperture
being left for the head, and the garment hang
ing from this back and front.
OF course. these blankets are not like the
blankets used for our beds, soft and woolly, but
a tightly woven material entirely covered with
figures, and this one had q wide border of red,
with fine red and blue figures in diamond and
other shapes scattered through it.
Made ornaments of passementerie are to be
used to trim this rough material where they arc
Topped on the skirt, and on each side of the
corsage wheels of braid with handsome hanging
drops shaped something like acorns are the
favorite patterns.
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Nihilism on the Increase.

PhiIadeIphia Ledger.
Nihilism in Russia appears to be as wide
spread as ever, and the curious feature that it is
to a great extent controlled and encouraged by
the educated classes continues to be shown by
every trial of the conspirators. Students, young
women of good families, and army officers are
rested; and, in spite of numerous executions aud
what is in some respects worse) exile to Siberia,
they continue their destructive work. There
must be deep conviction of wrong and abuse
back of a conspiracy of this kind, and made up
of such material, and it is not unlikely that for
every victim of the governments stern rule
there rises up another family of Nihilists to
avenge him.
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FINANCIALANDC COMMERCIAL
N AND STOCKS.
The New York Market Weak and Depressed
and Lower Figures Prevail.

The New York Market Weak and Depressed,
and Lower Figures Prevail.
New YORK, Oct. 18-Money easy at 203
per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 5 az per cent.
Sterling exchange steady; sixty days, $481b
sight, $484!!.
Governments quiet.
Railways weak.
State securities dull.
The stock market to-day was weak and de-
pressed on the cut in local passenger rates by
the West Shore and New York Central, and on
reports of a fresh issue of bonds by the Lake
Shore ana Lackawanna. In reference to the lat
ter, a director Of the company states positively
that no issue of bonds is intended. The cut in
rates caused considerable selling for long ac-
count. AS on yesterday, there were several
rallies, but none of any Importance. The de-
cline in prices ranged from l to 81 per cent, the
latter in Lake Shore. This stock continues to
be a favorite of the "bears," owing to the fact
that holders are still selling. Compared with
last night, the closing prices are ! to 3 per cent
lower. Stock sales for the week, l,8l2, 252
shares.
Transactions to-day, 488, 900 shares: Ga, 900
Lackawanna, $4,000 Lake Shore, IL, 900
Missouri Pacific, $1,000 Northwestern, As, coo
New York Central, Is, 1000 Pacific, Mail. Ga, 900
st Paul, SO. 600 Union Pacific, $4,000 Western
Union, and $1,000 Northern Pacific.
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High Licen.e in Michigan.

DctrOIt F0st.
The high liquor license in Michigan has had
the effect of decreasing the number of liquor
dealers, besides largely increasing the revenue
to the State. In 1873 the tax, under a lax en-
forcement of the law, brought into the treasury
q revenue of about $50, 600, while in 1883 the
revenue had risen to over 81, 600, 600, though in
the meantime the number of liquor dealers in
the State has decreased nearly 1000, while the
population has largely increased.
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strong trace of a reserve. of power. This may
be true: but is not the best song that wherein
the voice sweeps, with the last expression of
ecstacy, from wave to wave of music, until with
a supreme effort it wreaks its fullest power, thus
ending in a victory over the final obstacle, as if
with its utmost reach2 Be this as it may, who
ever may be fortunate enough to hear the mock
ing-bird's dropping song and at the same time
see the birds action, will at once have the idea
Of genius, pure and simple, suggested to him.