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Where Beauty Sleeps.
n Late New York Letter.

From a Late New York Letter.
Would you like to see how q New
York belle of millionaireism sleeps? |
can crafty you so far as to describe,
with literal exactness, the bedroom OF
ayoung woman whose name is printed
as often as anybody's in the society re7
ports. I never saw q more beautiful,
cosy, in every way delightful place
than the sl~eeping-room Of this young
princess of fashion-this eldest child of
a many-nillionaire. The wall paper
was pale gold, on faint slate color. The
gilt bedstead was pushed against a
square of pleited silk of q pale
gold, with slate-cloored silk BOWS
at the corners. Just such another
square of plated silk rose to the cell
ing above the wash-stand. On that
were only pitcher, bowl, soap dish and
so on, because water is presumed to in.
vite sewer gas, but all of the choicest
ware. A great sheet OF beveled lock-
ing glass, six feet high, swung on brass
rods above the floor in one corner for
the young woman to see her whole at
tire in. She had also q handsome fold
ing glass to reflect her ears, back hair
and neck. There was an open fire.
place, besides the hot ain register; a
dressing stand, laden with pretty toilet
boxes and bottles; an ivory clock like
a blrd-cage, III which ivory canaries
thrilled sweetly as each hour began;
easy chairs and a rockingham to match
the wall paper and furniture; a pretty
little prie-dieu for the young woman to
say her prayers upon as ~fashionably as
possible; and a wealth of little elegan-
cies completing q general effect that
was esquisite, dainty and inviting be-
yond computation. Opening out OF
this % the young m~illionairess had
another apartment where she wrote and
painted and worked" so to speak. but
Ibid not see it.
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Too Much Gun.

Capt. Marsh, who, some years ago,
made u tour through Persia, Afghan
stan and other Mohammedan countries.
heard, while at Teheran, an amusing
story of the Shah of Persia and his big
gun. The Shah, having heard much of
the merits of the Krupp gun, became
DESTROYS of possessing one, and applied
to the Russian Legation to be allowed
to get one of these guns from Russia.
The Gar granted his request, and
sent one of the largest and heaviest
description-a tlree-hundred FOUNDER.
1t was landed OF Enzeli, on the shore of
theiCaspian, by a Russian man-of-war.
The Shah sent a regiment to bring it
up, but great was the difficulty of con-
veying an article OF such ponderous
proportions over the Elburz Mountains,
without proper appliances and skilful
direction.
Aftermany months delay and great
waste of labor, it was brought into the
city in the state, and placed with the
other guns.
On the day appointed for the trial
trip, SO to speak, the whole court as
sembled, together with q vast crowd,
eager and curious to see the new gun.
The monster was fired. 1t happened
to be placed so near one OF the city
gates that the conclusion knocked down
n of its blue minarets, and the shot
travelled SO far along the plain that it
struck a mosque in a village five miles
away, and shattered it.
The Shah, in dIsmay at the effects
produced, had the Crupp gun put away
out of sight for fear of more accidents.
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A Too Particular House.

a man from Indiana, who went to
Chicago to buy Il stock Of groceries tc
start business, had but little ready
cash, and was asked what security he
could give.
''Well, / did own a saw-miIl,n he re-
piled.
But you don't now?n
"No, it was sold on q mortgage. I
did have a farm"
as that gone. too"
Yes, went on a mortgage"
"Got q lome?h
That's gone with the rest"
"Any wild lands?"
81 had 100 acres. but it's gone"
"Then you really have no security.n
Look a-herc, mister said the
Hoosier. as he Strengthened up, CATER
q man has been used to doing a mort
gage business tor twenty-five years he
can't change all IN a minute. If a
chattie mortgage on this stock amt
security enough for you I'll look
around and find some house not quite
SO particular. y Val Street Neegs.
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Industrial Breyjties.

As early as 1917 tobacco was raised
III Virginia. and the price was fixed by
the governor at 8 shillings per pound.
Four Years later it figured as an article
OF export, $4,000 pounds having been
sent to Holland in 1921, The yield
had become so plentiful in 1859 that
the price was 3 pence per pound. In
1876 England collected e135,0 0 IN
duties on Virginia and Maryland to-
bacco imported into that country. In
l729. it took 800 vessels to carry the to-
bacco sent to England, and the yearly
exports approximated 5000. 600, For
the 90 years ending with 1879 the snip
mcnts of tobacco from America were
IA, c6,000. 900 pounds. Allowing that
each vessel carried on an average of
600 ~hogsheads. there must have been
1924 slips employed, equal to 22l
vessels per annum During the past
quarter of n century the yield has been
increased from about 1870, 900. 900
pounds to about $50, 000, 900 pounds.
The monthly report of the Kansas
state board of agriculture says: The
month has been exceedingly favorable
for fruit, and there will be a large crop
of all kinds. except peaches, in all por-
lions of the state having bearing trees.
The counties lying along the southern
border of the state in the south CEN
ira section will have an abundant
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81 Tic weaxtest river
Ends In the great gray -;
Ine acorn, forever and ever,
Ssrises upward to the tree;
The rainbow, the K Adjoining,
Shines promise through the storm;
The g3tmmer 81 coming morning
Through midnight gloom viii form
BY time all knots are riven,
Compiexal though ther be,
And peace win at LIST be given,
Lear, bo b 70 ) andto me.
Then, though the path may be drsary,
Look onwardst TO the goal;
Though the heart and the head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul;
Seek the right, though the wrong be temp
ing,
Seek the truth at any cost;
Vain Is all weak attempting
When once the gem is lost.
Let strong hand md keen eye be ready
For plain and nmbushcd foes;
Thought earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close.
The heavycelouds may be raining,
but with evening comes the light;
Through the dark are low winds complain
ing,
Yet the sunrise gilds the height;
And Love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure;
And Time gives his fullest measure
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future ledge supplied;
For We know that when we awaken"
We shall be asatls8ed.s
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Rather Previous

"Were you acquainted with the MUIR
dered manP' asked the prosecuting
attorney OF a witness for the defense
in Il mardercase. The willingness OF
the witness to say all that he conld in
behalf OF the prisoner was very a,ppar-
ent, by the way.
Il know'd him; he was de honestest,
best-n
Never mind about his honesty.
You say you knew him.
Yes. sab, an Is proud ter say /
nehber know'ds ich a NOBLE
Nobody asked you about that.
What WAS the condition of his health9
Was he not in robust healthg"
No, sab; he was de feeblest niggah
l cbber seed
He was killed by the accused, was
be not?"
Il can't say SO, sab. My idee am
dat.he was in sich bad health dat.
chen if he hadn't been killed when he
WAS. he would have died ANYHOW at
least two days previous, sab. "-Yt1a$
SijtiRgs.
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Beauty's the Thing.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The latest personal about Mrs. Lang
try is that she has Just added So 900
more to the sum invested by her in New
York real estate, thus swelling the
amount to Sl35,000. A few years ago
she was comparatively i~mpecunious.
Her husband could not provide what
her tastes demanded, so she took to
trading i'll her beauty and now has lots
of money. Beauty is the thing. From
Helen of Troy to the Langtry, the wom-
an that has had beauty and was willing
to sell it has had no scarcity of none
Fl a time. Beauty and advertising to-
gether could not give Mrs. Langtry tai
ent or modesty or refinement or IN of
those inward or outward adornments a
true prizes beyond beauty or
money. But why seek talent or modesty
when beauty may secure what these
could not?
With beauty and modestv Mrs. Lang
try can get all the admiration she wants,
all the fine clothes needed to show her
off. With beauty and money she can
hold the friendship of titled people in
all parts of the world. Beauty's the
thing.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
yvisch's hand in the graveyard. The

witch's hand in the graveyard. The
same peculiar shock passed through
me-, and the memory of that spectral
night came oyer me like a flash.
But | did not start out to tell a love
story. Let me briefly say that | fell in
love, hopelcssly and ridicnlously in
love, and that | acted just Ike all low
ers have done since the world began.
1t doesn't matter much about a mans
age. At twenty-seven he will act
pretty much as he would do at seven
teen, and so | wrote verses and s ghed.
and tormented myself with a thousand
hopes and fears, and grew hot and cold
by turns, and wonderfully timid, and
prided myself in concealing it all,
when. as a matter of fact, the state of
my feelings was perfectly apparent to
all my acquaintance,
Matters Were in this interesting
state, when one day an opportunity oc-
Cured of which l availed myself with
a degree of skill and presence of mind
that | am proud OF to this day. 1t all
came about through my asking the
young lady if she believed in ghosts.
Il suppose l should" said she,
laughing, considering my eAper.
ience.'
Leave a woman alone TO make an
evasiye answer. OF course. Bmplored
an explanation, and she related to me
the following story:
at was about two years ago when a
party Of girls, just home from school,
were visiting q friend down in the
country. One of the girls had heard
q foolish story ABOUT a witch's grave
and some nonsense about her annual
appearance. and a talisman, and when
depressed my Incredibly, they braved
me TO put it to the test. What is the
natter The place? A little town
called Adj ngtune.
'.Foolishly ! accepted their challenge
and received a terrible fright. car
ried out the instructions and stretched
my arm over the grave. 1t was so
dark | could see nothing. but some one
seized my hand. ! was so benumbed
with fear that | could not cry out, but
could only fly through the lonely
graveyard to where my trembling
companions were awaiting me IN the
field. 1t was q foolish adventure. for
| fell i'll. and it cost me q valuable
ring, which was left to me BY poor
Amt Barbara. For her little name
sake she said, when she semi it across
the sea to me-. You see the ring was u
little large for nv finger, and was
pulled off by-by~-"
by mel interrupted, taking the
lost ring from my pocket.
1t was time for Barbara q forgot to
say that was her nancy to be startled
now. hope | may say that ] came
out s.rong on the occasion. told my
story III Il very impressive way. lin
gered Owe the effect of the witch S
hand on my heart, spoke of the good
fortune the talisman had brought me,
made a very pretty allusion to Barbara
the witch retaining her own-for she
was not a witch, after all, as 1 could
testify, having felt her charms-and
finally not only offered to return the
ring, but to give myself into the bar
gain.
She took both.
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A~ntipathies.

Some strange cases of antipathy are
are recorded in the lives of eminent men.
Erasmus was made feverish by the smell
of fish. Ambrose Parr had q patient
who would faint at the sight of an eel.
and another who was convulsed on see
ing a carp. Gardan was Disguised at
the sight of eggs. A king OF Poland
and a secretary of France bled at the
nose whef offered apples. A huntsmen
IN Hanover, WHO would attack a wild
bear valiantly ran away or tainted when
ever roast pig was presented to his
view. A person is told of who tainted
Whenever he saw a rose, and similar
stories are told of antlpathies to lilies
and honey. Tycho Brahe abhorred
foxes, Henry III. OF France cats, mice.
spiders, etc, and Marshal d'Albret pigs.
There was "once upon a time" a lady
who could not endure the sight of silk
or satin. The MAJ who would faint
whenever lie heard q servant sweeping
IS not so much of n stranger, and the
one who was similarly affected ~ the
sound Of a bagpipo invites universal SYM
pathy. Boyle was overcome at hearing
the spiashing of water.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
A Glacier 800 Feet High.

The glaciers of Glacier Bay are the
largest in Alaska. Formed among the
higher crags of Fnirweather range.
they gradually deepen and widen as
they near the sea, and end at last in q
massive cliff of solid ice, often meas,1r.
ing 800 feet high and having a width Of
several miles. The surface of the gla-
GERS Is rough and biliowy, resembling
the waves of a troubled ocean frozen in.
to solid blocks of ice at the moment Of
.neir widest gambols. Constantly
pressed forward by the heavy blocks of
zee that gradually slide down the noun.
tam ravines. the great frozen river
Keeps pressing seaward until the action
OF the wave crumbles away gigantic
cakes that fall away with a noise like
sle booming of cannon, and with a
force which sends columns of water
hl2ii INTO the neutrality-suspicious.
Boston Advertiser.
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Lincoln's Lightheartedness.

fAVHAhEV'
Everybody old enough to recall the
memories of those terrible battling
days will remember the disastrous re-
pulse of Burnside at fredericksburg on
December ID. 1868. l shall never for
get the morning of the next day, when
we heard in full the measure of the
great disaster. 1t was almost as dark
as midnight; the clouds poured down
rain in torrents. The very elements
seemed shrouded in gloom and weep
ing for the thousands of the Union
dead and wounded. The Hon. Isaac
n. Arnold, then a member of congress
from the state of Illinois, ard life .long
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Some Characters at the Exposition.

From an illustrated paper on the
New Orleans Exposition by Eugene V.
Smalley, in the June Century. we quote
the following anecdotes of some of the
types seen nj the fair: The odd char
acters at the fair are the terror of ex-
hibitors. ACincinnati furnitnre-mak-
er discovered Il countryman from
Arkansas whiting a handsome ma
hogany cabinet to see what the wood
was like The mans knowledge of
furniture was evidently limited to
articles which could not be damaged
BY q ~seasonable use of the ~iack-knife.
Another exhibitor. who had fitted up
a o with the finest specimens of
his art, was Mortified to find an Old
lady eating her lunch of fried chicken
seated in one of his satin upholstered
chairs. What's the cheer good for if
it amt to set down in?' she placidly
remarked. in reply to his earnest re-
quest that she would 90 somewhere
else with her victuals. The same ex-
hibitor II day found that some visitor
to his alcoves had left a token of APP
proyal on the polished surface of a
costly mantal, in the words This is
pretty good scratched with a knife.
1.-The Turks who sell o~livc-wood.
beads, and other trinkcts from Jeru-
salem-all made in Paris-are pic
turesque additions to the permanent
personnel of the fair, though their
ge%nuineness. like that OF their wares,
will not always bear inspection. An
amusing scene occurred one day At
one of these Oriental bazaars. Atall
man. with a rural air, stopped before
the stand and appeared to take a live.
ly interest. not in the goods but i'll the
features of one of the salesman in
scarlet fez and baggy trousers. He
surveyed the Oriental in front aud in
profile, and then. slapping him on the
shoulder, exclaimed. Hello. Jake,
when did you come from Indiana
The turk from Indiana acknowledged
his old acquaintance and begged that
he would not give him away"
People are apt to swallow reputation uudc,
the impression that ii is merit.-Barlingtsn
Haekeye.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07

When American newspapers begin to talk
about their aye they should sit down calmly
and think of the Pekin Gasette that began TO
fill u long felt want III the year Gil.
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A primrose by any other pame wonli smell
as sweet, and SO Huxley has taken the liberty
OF calling it "a corolliioral d%icotrldonous exc
GEM
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The worshipers at Trinity church are
much pleased with the new pulpit. 1t
enables the audience to hear more ac-
cnrately the 1870 words a minute Of Rev.
Phillips Brooks.
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People are apt to swallow reputation uudc!
the impression that II is merit,-Barlingtsa
Ha,ekeye,
The Washington critic., 1885-07-09
MIR. MCPHERSON HEARD FROM.

Senator Mcpherson has been heard from
sooner than was expected, but the re-
sponse which he makes to the old charges
against him might have been anticipated.
He could not have made denial of their
truth any more positive and unequivocal
than he wrote to the late Senator Ran
dolph nearly six years ago. In that letter,
speaking of the reports which had been
putin circulation about his entering into
conspiracy for the promotion of Mr..
Sewelrs political ambition, he remarks in
rs emphatic way as the unrevised ver-
sion of the Old Testament Scriptures
would permit
beg leave to say, that whoever the. author
may be, he is grossly deceived as to the Identity
BILE villain. To say that General Sewell and
myself, in December last, in Philadelphia or at
any time OF, place, held any such conversation
is false as hell.
This has reference to the conversation
which Peter Watson alleges he overheard
at the Continental Hotel between Mr.. Nc
pherson and Mr.. Sewell in which the
details Of the conspiracy to ruin Mr..
Randolph were deliberately divulged, and
which Mr.. Watson, with his ear
ut the key-hole or over transom,
appears to have heard without missing q
word or syllable.
Senator Mcpherson can do no more than
reiterate his denial. Mr. Sewel is out of
the country. Mr. Watson is not in "A con-
dtion TO affirm or deny. Air. Randolph
has gone to the bourne from which no
traveller returns. The charges in all hui
man probability can never be substantial
tod Ia OH IikaIihoo6 tbov boVn no fan .,
dation in fact. In any event the meth
ods employed by Mr.. Watson to involve
Mr.. Mcpherson in political scheme to
elect a Republican to the United States
Senate were so revolving to the sense of
decent and honorable men that were the
worst of his allegations true the truth
would be a shining virtue in comparison
with his own disreputableness.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-09

French artificial flowers are reported TO
be this season wonderful in their fidelity
to nature. The Persian lilac and guelder
roses, flowers not very easily copied, are
most exquisite, especially in colorng
The groenish tints in the latter old
get at exactly; and as to the former if
there is one shade Of color about them
there Is dozen. Artificial fruit win be
all the rage on Partisan bonnets as the
summer advances, and il is being made of
India rubber. This is quite an innoya-
ton, as thin blown glass has always been
used previously. The new fruit is most
successful The punches of red currents
do not look quite ripe enough to be eatable,
but the plums, with the bloom on them,
and the apricots are 50 good that It would
he difficult to tell the imitation from the
true If they were placed side by side in a
dessert dish II Vick's Magazine.
The Washington critic., 1885-07-09
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

THE MEXICAN EDITORS are at Boston to-
day.
WAIT WHTMAN's next book OF poems
will be entitled "Sands at Sixty-sevcn."
Mr.. BENJAMrY, ex-United States Minis
ter to Persia, arrived in New York yester-
day.
SENAroR SHERMAN, who has been in New
York for several days past, left yesterday
for his home.
CoLoNDL DENBY, the new Minister to
China, is to be dined by his Evansville
friends on Tuesday next.
MRs. JULIA WARD HOWE will be one OF
the lecturers at the Concord School of
Philosophy, which opens July 10.
Mr.. LOWELL has excited surpise in some
quarters by his failure to go to Washing
ton since his return to pay an official visit
to Mr.. Cleveland.
ACCORDING to the Washington CORE
spondents, the greatest Secretary in Mr..
Cleveland's Cabinet is the private secre-
tary.---[N. Y. Tribune.
THERE is not much probability that the
presidency of Cornell will be rendered to
General Walker. Professor Charles Ken
dali Adams seems to be the man deter
mined upon.
MILE. RHEN has received an offer from
Mr.. J. c. Williamson the Australian man
ager to play III Australia next summer.
In all probability she will visit those res
mote regions in June.
WIN. NJ. SINeERLY was in Washington
yesterday and discussed Holsten cows
and their golden butter with the Presi-
dent and several members of the Cabinet.
philadelphia Times.
MATHEW STANLEY QUAY, Republican
candidate for Treasurer of Pennsylvania,
is about 50 years of age and native of
York. He was General Curtin's private
secretary while the latter was Governor
and for time was State agent at Wash
ington.
Ben; PERLEY PooRE, who is now'on his
Massachusetts farm for the summer, com
pleted before leaving Washington hi;
| book, entitled "a Descriptive Catalogue
| of Government Publications" He has
been at work upon it for the past two
| years.
THE DIAMONDS which Mrs. Moses Fraley
of st. Louis is exhibiting at Long Branch
are represented to be worth S250,000. The
principal designs are harp, crescent, ar
row, heart and broken column, and The
soltaires she wears in her ears are as large
as haZlo nuts.
Mrs. JULIA JACKSON CHRISTIAN, daugh
ter of General Stonewall Jackson, has
written grateful letter, acknowledging
the set of China plates sent her as a we'd
ding gift by the Mobile Rifles; also the
beautiful case of silver sent her by thC
Third Alabama Association.
MANY HoUsE-owNERs IN Washington
have tastefully decorated their house
fronts by growing vines of various kinds
The Virginia creeper, one of the mos
popular plants for this purpose, is usually
selected, owing to Its bright green color'
in summer and its scarlet leaves in the
fall. This is harmless as well as beau
| tiful plant. A lack of botanical knowl
edge, however, seems to be shown by
many citizens who have selected the simi
lar but very poisonous plant known as th'
| poison ivy, for this ornamental purpose
| New York Evening Post.