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The Star-Fish.

original ChatterbOx.
When walking on the sea beach, you may often
see curious object lying on the sand some
what In the shape of a star with FIVE rays. If
you take 1t up 1t is quite limp and soft, and
seems like piece of emi-transparent jelly.
Can such a creature feel9 Does it move about
1t cannot walk with its rays, and appears to
have no means of swimming; but if you place it
in pool OF salt water, you will soon see that it
has both life and motion. 1t shoots out from
the under-side a number of little suckers. like
tiny legs. and with these it takes hold of the
surface OF the rock, aud moves along rather as
though it were swimming than walking. Its
mouth is in the center, and if it meets with a
piece OF tainted fish, it clasps it betweenits rays
and Grams If into its mouth. 1t feeds only on
the refuse of the ocean. and so the starfish acts
part In the water something similar to that of
the carton crow on land. Thus everything Gre
ated has its use. and serves some purpose in the
economy of nature.
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PHOTOGRAPH
Hints for People Concerning Minor Details in
the Way of Dress.

Hints Tor People concerning minor "Details In
the Way of Dress.
Baltimore Herald
''Colored people," said the photographer, as
the figure of Charles Henry disappeared down
the stairway, take much better pic ture than
white persons. coffee-colored skin absorbs
the light and utllizes the shades and shadows in
a Theoretically perfect and harmonious proper
ZION. For that reason the extremely dark
skinned do not show up so we'll In a picture as
the lighter skinned. The medium mulatto takes
the finest photograph in the world. Every
feature is distinctly brought out; every line and
shade IN the countenance is clear and SOFT the
eyes look unusually plain and brilliant, and the
hair not being glossy, makes fine appearance.
The camera cannot satisfactorily represent the
surface of any object that is very black or
highly polished or purely white and devoid of
COLOR
'Light-complexioned persons do not then, look
we'll when photographer was asked.
NO. replied the taker of tin-types, "as their
faces appear to be banched the lines are lost,
and the likeness is very unsatisfactory. So it is
with light hair Chestnut hair gives the best eff
feet. Yellow hair has the appearance of snow,
and it is very difficult to catch the part in black
haiI The most satisfactory way of doing up the
hair is in the pompadour or the Greek styles, be-
cause they then form a relieving background for
the features. Light -colored goods, particularly
pink and yellow, either in dresses, wraps. rib
bons or ornaments, and gold rings, and brace
lets, and necklaces. and pearls, all wasted &C
cessories of the toilet in a photograph gallery.
Sealskin fur is taken up nicely by the camera.
1t is impossible to faithfully photograph dia
mond. 1t invariably looks like a pebble or fish
scale. PAtenteather shoes resemble brogans
made of isingiass. Albnos' eyes appear white
circled with thin rim of black"
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Kitty's Favorite Play.
Pansy.


Kitty walked slowly into the sitting room. She
looked all about the room, and then sat town and
began to wash her face. Nobody here" she
thought to herself, NOW will have nice time. y
She jumped on the table, looked into grandma's
basket, and knocked the spools about with her
soft paw 20 dear, that ball isn't here" said
kitty to herself; II wonder where my mistress
has put it. / don't see why she won't let me
play with it. She is always hiding it, but can
find it." So kitty walked to the edge of the
table, and stepped into large standing basket
She knocked the spools about until went
over the edge and rolled across the room and
under the bookcase. That's gone" said
kitty, "but matter, / want to find
the ball" She walked all about the ROOM
jumped upon the piano. upon the book stand
and finally back to the table. She patted all
the sewing upon the table, and at last turned up
the edge of pair of stockings when out rolled a
self, smiling as only kittens can, II knew
could find it, Now I will have some fun"
She took the ball in her mouth, Jumped down
on the floor, and laid it gently before her. Then
she walked away and sat up and looked at it.
Suddenly she gave dive at it, striking it so hard
it rolled under the table. This just suited kitty.
She bounded after it, knocked it around all the
legs of the table. round two or three chairs and
toward the sewing machine. OF course the
yarn unwound as the ball rolled. so all these
things were tied together. Round and round the
legs of the machine il went back round the table,
round every chair, in and out under the sofa,
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Improvement on Forty Acres"

washington N o. Gazette.
Some time ago negro was banged in Green
vile. Since then enterprising colored brother
has been selling alleged strands of the hangmans
rope to cure fits. A strand long enough to go
around the neck is sold for twenty five cents 1t
is said that the happy possessor of the rope finds
eager purchasers here every Saturday evening
and. of course, his country custom must be large
Another negro has seen this and gone
one better He has been to Washington
city recently. and claims to have
had talk with President Cleveland. He tells
the darkies that the President authorized him to
find out the colored men in Pitt county who
voted for him, and to all such who will send him
"a bride he will forward a mule. The mule will
correspond with the bride; the better the bride
the better the mule. The President appointed
this ebon-hued citizen of Pitt county bride col
lector and mule distributor, and when the first
lot of 100 brides is sent on to Washington the
mules will be forwarded 1t is said that over
fifty brides have so far been collected by this
precious rascal. They are new, and cost from
rs cents to 81. % piece.
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THEATRICAL LITHOGRAPHS.
Members of the Profession Particular Abeua
Their Portraits.

Members of the Profession Particular Abeua
Their Portraits.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Stars both male and female, when ordering
pictures of themselves insist on likeness but
at the same time it must be pretty Lawrence
Barrett is very notional, and changes his pict-
ures almost every season. He is of the
most particular men in the profession. He
obliged an artist to accompany him to Detroit
not very long ago and compelled him to finish his
pictures in his room at the hotel under his own
personal supervision. Lolita and Mary Ander-
son are very prolific with the number and va
riety of their pictures. Keene, the tragedian,
has four life sized and eight different window
Autographs in as many different characters
This matter of insisting on Autograph being
perfect has proven an annoyance to sonses
people in the profession. Minnie Palmer
fused lot of portraits because one of the eve
browS was out of drawing. She said nobody
would ever take the horrid thing for her portrait
The manufacturer said nothing but he sold tiias
lot to shoe backing firm, which printed an,
advertisement In one corner and scattered thet
pictures broadcast In the same way thousands
of coored Autographs of Emily Melville got intoS
the hands OF cigar firm. and without the actresses
name on them, were sent out for ADVERTISE
ment. 1t is said that some Of the professional
people make nice things out of the privilege OF
using theiE pictures for advertisements. Kate
Castleton in her Quaker Dress is cited as an in
stance where her popularity was relied upon Inn
introducing brand of cigarettes, to extAnrt
tnat mace tne manufacturer pay her Literally
for the of the privilege.
While the Autograph was formerly confined to-
the higher salared people in the profession ies
has now become so common that every man,
woman and child on the stage, from the museuuis
midgets to the most brilliant star hangs out bs
portrait. Some idea of the expense of billing
may be gathered from the fact that many COM
panies have man called the lithograher who
travels ahead of the company and hangs pctures4
in the store windows. To bill city such as
this would cost the ordinary theatrical company
about 5000 for the entire week, and the expense4
of billing a town for circus in the ordinary
way costs about 800. Theatrical companies
usually order Autographs in editions of 5000, ata
a cost of from six to so cents each. The larger
minstrel companies carry from six to ten de-
signs, and will sometimes use so 900 in one sea-
SON American theatrical Autographs are con-,
sidered far superior to the English The ideaE
head of Mckee Rankin, Haverly's Minstrel pict-
ures and the Fun on the Bristol" autographs
created quite sensation in England, and orders,
from Europe and from Australia resulted
from it.
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Judicial Methods i'm Russia.

Foreign Letter.
The case of a Mr.. Ponomareff illustrates most
clearly how little even innocence may avail to
save man in Russia from the clutches of the
imperial inquisitors In 1874 Mr. Ponomaref,
student in the Saratov Seminary, was taken into
custody on a charge of belonging to secret So
ciety. Among the papers of one of the leaders,
of the movement Voinaralski, had been found
ticket on which was written Ponomareffs name
This was held to be sufficient justification OF ms
arrest. AT the interrogatory the latter denied
all knowledge of the former, saying that ne had
not the least idea how Voianaralski became
acquainted with his name. Persisting IN THIS
denial, he was accused of obstlnacy, urged 10
confess, and, still proving recalcitranf.
sent to prison and advised to reflect" AS ne
reflected there three years, it cannot be said that
the authorities did not give him ample time To
consider both sides of the question AT the end
of three years Ponomaref was at length placed
on his trial, and retained Mr. Stassoff, we'll
known St Petersburg advocate, for his defense
The advocate naturally enough, asked to see the
ticket on which his clients name was affirmed to-
be written. The ticket was produced accord
ingly, when, 10 and behold the name was NOS,
Ponomareff at all. Owing to slight similarity
in the spelling of their cognomens, the police
had mistaken him for somebody else, and ar
rested the wrong man. So Indifferent are the
dispensers of the Cars justice to the rights or
the Cars subjects, that it took three years toy
rectify an error that in any other country woui0s
have been sectifed within twenty-four hours.
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The Condemnation of Social Amusements.

sunday Telegram.
Some of the Atlanta ministers have seen wise
to condemn many of the popular social amuse-
ments and customs of the day. May it not be
that they who delight to show US the steep and
thorny way to heaven have allowed their preju-
dices to so obscure their vision, that they have
seen only one side of that divine Personality
whose sublime philosophy of love has elevated
the world? Is it not we'll to remember that His
broad sympathy embraced all manner of doing
good; that He made part in the ten
der domestic festivities of those He loved
that 1t was at a wedding feast where
the numbers were SO great that the
exhausted wine jars were replenished by the
first miracle? And that even on the Sabbath
day he dined with the publican; that on a
Sabbath morn we have glimpse of Him walking
with His disciples over the fowery meads of
Gallilee under the blue Jordan sky, gathering
the lilies of the field and illustrating their beau
tiful lessons9 Or even walking through the
fields of corn when His disciples, feeling hun
gered, plucked the ears and atea Did He not
enjoy the hospitality of Martha and Mary even
when he gave that lesson, useful now and then,
that in our homes and lives material details
must ever be subordinate to the higher spiritual
culture? Scarcely did he cease from the lesson
of love to rebuke the Pharisee, who prayed,
standing on the street corners, to be seen of
men, who saw the mote in his brothers eye, but
not the beam in his own. Does not the sacred
Personality consecrate these simple actsl And
does it not teach that charity, sweet charity
consecrates its own actsl
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Brooklyn Union.


Brooklynite who has had some far Western
experiences in connection with mining interests,
relates the following story:
While was stopping few weeks IN Colo
RADIO town, the president Of mining company
died The editor of the local paper, with par
donable pride desired to give him what they
call out there "a good send-off." The article he
wrote was highly seasoned eulogy, and in
casting about for title, he decided upon this:
death Loves Shining Mark" He finished his
editorial just in time to go to the funeral, leav-
ing the foreman of the Office to read the proof
After the obsequies he hurried to get copy of
his paper. to see whether he or the parson had
done the best by the deceased, when, to his
horror he saw his cherished article with the
title; Death Loves Mining Shark" There
was another funeral few days later The
corpes of the foreman was not much disigured
The editor was acquitted.
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HelIas.

Ia pendant to The Critics late review of Andrew
Langs Custom and MYTH
lis not where sculpture rules world grown dim,
Fair Hellas lies, so dear to poets heart
Not in the galleries of sacred art,
Where group the old gods manned in trunk and liMbs
Nor is it where enchanted islands swim
The warm 4Egean waves nor where, apart,
Through rosy mists Olympian heights upstart,
And float like dreams the horizons rim.
Ali where is Hellas, then! Ts where fresh eyes
Look forth with love natures face again;
There dreams spring up, and fairy visions rise.
And hallowed fanes appear by cliff and glen;
In the warm breast of nature Hellas lies
Great mother of all gods and godlike men,
%. G. Auringer, in The Critic.
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mts the escape of smoke-through tile, per-
haps. The ''stove" consists of a series of basins
about a foot square, in which charcoal is burned.
The ashes fall through the grating the floor or
into receptacles provided for the purpose TIE
fumes rise to poison the air, and escape as best
they can, except there be the small opening re-
ferred to. Pies and cakes are unknown practc-
ally, but everything else except the very largest
is to be roasted whole number of large birds
they placed in tight stone or plaster oven,
the air in which has previously been heated to
the roast point by means of blocks of wood the
embers of which are removed before baking
The heat will be retained long enough to &C.
complish the baking.
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kitty leaping and bounding after it sometimes
catching it in her teeth, and sometimes tossing
1t up oh, this is fun" said kitty. sHark, my
mistress is coming and-I am tired" The door
opened. and little blue-eyed girl came in.
Kitty, kitty" she called where are you,
kittys' She stopped as she saw the yarn tying
nearly all the furniture in the room together and
Kitty washing her face and looking very inno-
cent. 20 you naughty kitty" she said, ito
make me so much work. / thought I hid that
ball This is the second time today have had
to wind it up after you. If you only could,
would make you wind it up yourself" Il can't, /"
thought kitty, and she winked and went to Sleep
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The handsomest embroidered muslins this sea-
son are those on which the drapery is formed
from single deep iounee forty two inches wide,
the width of the embroidery thereon varying
from eighteen to thirty six inches The founda-
ton skirt is plain. with embroidered founce
at the foot, and the bodice is round baby waist.
ali acknowledgements belt and broad sash of
MORE or satin ribbon. Sometimes the deep
founce is slightly sloped, making it little
shorter on the left side than on the right, and
here there are two three extra ruffies match
ing that at the foot Of the skirt. Tbs nlA.fash-
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EOOI Notes.

We thank our Walnut Hill Mass contribu-
tors for excellent supply Of matter.
NINA B-Your diagonal puzzle is very accept
able. Let us have more of the same sort.
DoDo provides rather ''fshy" lot of decapita-
tions. Who can catch all of the fshes9
DIAMOND GAINsLEY seems to be inclined to
spell her words backward. as we'll as forward.
MAY Blossom will not bloom much longer in
this department, unless she sends us fresh sup
ply, as her list is fast becoming exhausted.
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Accented Puzzles.

By Adam O'Crat: Charade, numerical enigma
and decapitated word square.
By A. P. Uzzler: Numerical and crossword
enigmas
BY Ell Captain: Deeapitations and numerical
enigma.
BY Eagle Eye: Curtailments and two cha
rades
By Texas Will: Easy geographical square
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Kitchens In Cuba.

Letter in Concord Monitor.
Most American housewives would be inter-
ested in Cuban kitchen, and ! suppose dunn
founded at its primitiveness. / don't think there
is a chimney in Havana. with the exception, of
course. OF factory ehimneys. The nearest ap-
proach Is to be found in the large hotels where
aslight opening in the wall of the kitchen per-
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Is notal ways innate or born with them' pug
many instances are known whore 1t has oeeis
acquired by the persistent and judicions use "
DR.. Harter's lron Tonic.
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Honeward.

Through shade and shine the journey lies
Beneath the exchanging skies.
Our finite skill can ne'er divine
If one day shall be dark or 6ne:
God hides it from our anxious eyes.
How we'll for him who daily tries
BY faith to pierce the clouds disguisa
And sees the Fathers glad desiga
Through shade and shine!
O Thou who art the Only Wise,
In mazes dark ray way advise;
Let bitter days with sweet combine.
To make my life more truly Thine;
Thus led by Thee, my song shall rise,
Through shade and shine
IS. S. Mccurry, in June Culver.
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READING FOR THE SABBATH.

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought,
Who talks of scheme and plan2
The Lord is God He needeth not
The poor device of man.
/ dinniy guess from blessing known
OF greater out of sight;
And with the ehastened Psalnist own
His judgments, too, ere right.
j. g. Whittier.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.

Everything relating to this department must
be addressed to w. 81. GRAHAM, West Scarbor-
ough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original
contributions and answers to each weeks puz-
zles are solicited from ALL
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ment, not without tears. He died on the 18th Of
April, 1887, a septuagenarian. The life of NOR
tai life is the hope of immortal life"
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Some Pleasing Reading.
Puzzles Answered.

We offer book containing some pleasingre
ing for the best set of answers this week.
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BY Adam C'Crat, Walnut Hill, Mass, Nos,
l54S 1851 1885,. 1853, 1854.
We award small book to Adam O'Crat.
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Original Puzzles.
NO. l568-ENIGMA
My 6, 5, a, 2, s, 9 is a musical instrument.
My l, Z, 3 is to be obliged.
My whole is little hillock. UNCLE THEo.
SALEM, Ind.
NO. 1569-cHARADE.
dedicated to May Bossom.1
My first is a highwayman--
Guess it, puzzer, If you
My seconds common plant
Known to mother. sister. aunt.
IF you saw whole on log
You'd call it toad frog.
WALNUT HILL, Mass EAGLE EYE.
NO. l570-DiAGoNAL PUZZLE.
x
X
xo K
X x x X 0
l. Speculation 2. An alloy of copper and
zine , To strengthen (obs.>. A. One who fol-
lows 5. To effect G. Noise T. To accuse.
adorned with tissue NINA B.
LEBANON, Ind.
NO. AUTHORIZATIONS.
l. Behead fish and leave plaster. 2. A fish
and leave unit. 3. fish and leave convey
ance 4. A fish and leave girls name. S. Afish
and leave a servant DODO.
GALLON, 0.
NO. 1572-CRoSs- WORD ENIGMA.
In grass not in reed
In plant. not in weed;
In Grant not in Lee;
In Rhine, not in Dee;
In skunk not in rat
In glove, not in hat;
In crane, not in OWL
In scream, not in howl;
Whole is the grampus-
The tell us.
WALNUT Hill, Mass. A. P. UzzLER.
NO. 1573-REvERsALs.
l. Reverse measure and make an avenue
2. Reverse a market and make the shaft of
cart
3. Reverse the knave of clubs and make to
describe.
4. Reverse a sailor and make animal
5. Reverse ale (Scot) and make a vessel.
6. Reverse loathsome and make mariners
compass.
Z. Reverse a piece of reed or wood and make
the hinges of door. DIAMOND GAINsLEY.
NEW Brunswick. Ind.
NO l574-NUMER1cAL ENIGMA.
l am composed of eight letters
My l, 2, 5, z is an avenue.
Ny 4, 3, is block containing concave
screw.
My G. 7, 8 is to suffer
My whole is device used in olden times as
punishment. Ut
PLAINrIELD, Ind.
NO. 1575-DRoP LETTER PUZZLES.
Q)"-W-U-D-A-H-
-B-P-E--I-E-T'
(H-N-Y-L-Y.)
t2.) "-I-E-E-I-E-T-
All" (-A-R-C-H-N-Y.)
JEFFERsoNvILLE, Ind CHRYsTAL.
NO. 157G-GEoGRAPHIcAL ENIGMA
My whole, Of seven letters, is small river OF
Texas.
Ny |, 2, 6. is river of Armenia.
My 8, 3, is a river of Austrian Poland.
BOSTON, Mass. MAY Blossom.
Answers in three weeks.
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No 1554-L Flow wolf. z. Lamina animal
3. Keel leek. 4 Level level s. Tenet, tenet
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Answers to Puzzles.
No. 1548-Eye Linwood.
No. 1549-

A primrose by rivers brim,
A yellow primrose to him,
And it was nothing
No. 1551--l Price. 2. P ape-r. g. Altar
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