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Pretty Eeak.

The Albany Argus says a story of
a pedal exploit has been current
month in high society. The account
said that there was a merry supper
party at fashionable restaurant. three
of the company being maidens of beau
ty,and some renowI as bellies. Ali were
married. Several of the liveliest,
most sentimental, highly absorbent
of alteration, are husbanded al
ready. The conversation turned
accidentally upon pretty feet.
Somebody suggested a competitive
examination of the feet of the three
beauties. A great deal of wine had
been drank. They consented. A con-
venient portiere screened the women
except their bare feet. and the Jury
awarded pair of carriers to tue owner
of the one deemed loveliest- This
was an actual incident. The names
could be given and they belong to
respected and respectable families.
OF course there was nothing positively
wicked or even immodest in the thing
but it shows that the extremely pre-
tentious circles of New York are as
apt as the rest of lis to 90 curious
featS for fun
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It isn't everybody that can join the
Art Students League. You have to
know something-and good deal
Of art subjects before the privilege of
working under these instructors is CIV
en- you. The League is an off-shoot
from the old Academy of Design.
Some of the younger and the more ad-
vanced artists of the Academy broke
away from their old school and
founded this new League. If you
want to study under good tutelage, so
as to make the most of your talent, YOU
join the League. That is, you do if
the League will have you. The first
thing they do is to set before you an
examination-just as if you were civ
il'service hod-carrier applying for 4
Government job-and you have to
show certain proficiency or the school
declines to accept you as a student.
The examination once passed you are
put through a regular course of study,
rising every six months to higher
things. And all the while, if you really
care for your work. you are having a
good time and can wear an apron as
coquettish as the one in the picture
above. Not only that, but you can 20
without bangs and wear the Oldest hat
in your collection or do lots of queer
things, and everybody will excuse the
departure from the conventional and
say how becomingly original you are in
dress and envy your artistic taste,
wishing they could 60 and do likewise.
And you can nod your bangless head.
look wise and smile and never tell
them that the secret of artistic dress is
economy and that an apron covers a
multitude of stains.
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AwuODLAND FLOWER.

How could I know, % tender woodland
treasure,
With petals blue and soft as summer
skies,
That from the dust of long forgotten pleas.
So dear q hope, SO fair dream, could
rise?
Meek, lonely blossom. hiding in the shad
Ows,
And waved by mountain b-eezes cool and
free,
No fairer flower from summers golden
meadows
Could bring the thoughts that thou hast
borne to me!
From the sweet stiffness of the misty noun
tains,
Where fairies weave a strange, myster-
ious spell,
The COOLING winds that blow from hidden
fountains
Bore thee mid alien bowers and scenes
All, sweeter on thy petals, fair and broken,
Than winds that blow across q summer
Or strains of fairy music, is that token,
Oh, wOndrous flower, that thou hast
brought to me!
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Tho Poet.

"Ah!' breathed the poet, as he stood
on the top of California street hill and
gazed upon the moon-lit bay and the
deep blue Potrero. ''Ah! what is all
that money can buy to this glorious
scene. Nature speaks in it's multitude
nous ways, and its beauty puts to
shame the art and dazzle that coin
creates. Look at that millionaire's
palace with its marble walls.'
break in here to say that l don't
know what palace he was abiding to,
There are no marble walls around
California street-unless it be in the
hearts of some of its moneyed people.
But poets are allowed to imagine
things for effect.
''Those marble walls hide all that
art of man can furnish. What is it
all to this glorious view, the broad
expanse of landscape with it's tint of
silver moonlight? What is money to
him whose soul-''
There was sudden pause. His
glance had fallen on the pavement.
Her gaze was rooted there. He leaned
down and picked up something from
the ground.
1T is dime,'' he said; 'let us 20
and have two beers. San Frcnci $50
Chronicle.
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Not P3tentabl0.

Washington Letter: Il want to take
a patent out for a dream" said a
crank who entered the room of the
Chief Clerk of the Patent Office this
afternoon.
''Dreams are not patentable, SIR"
was the answer.
''You don't get my idea,' persisted
the imaginary inventor. Its like
this: l had Dream the other night
invented a machine in my sleep. 1t
would navigate the air. got up took
my knife, and scratched q drawing Of
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Rye No. 9 50 bid
Flax Seed-JO
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Dressed beef, choice steers SC. q Sc
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Butter. extra 15916c. bid.
Cheese, 10 "a !2c.
Eggs, exrre SfdS11c. asked
Potatoes. Csc per b1shei bll
Live Stock sales OF steers ranged 1878
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SO much if you are woman. If you
happen to be male student you have
the privilege of resting. hemmed in by
a bevy of nice girls, somewhat as this
lucky young man is represented to be-.
The best part of the work seems to be
resting; at least the incest part is. Be-
tween studies so to speak, the students
gather about one work or another and
talk shop to each other over the merits
of the sketch in question or gossip
about the wretched taste of the last
Hanging Committee and the poor work
that so and SO has done. Any mar
can see by the picture how nice a
thing it is to be an art student.
The models do not have quite so
much fun. Their business smacks of
trade and is not as wildly exciting as
one might wish. At times there is
even touch Of the HOMOGENEOUS about
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An ApUloRY.

Old Nose and another old darkv
were standing on a corner discussing
matters and things, when Jim Webster
happened to pass.
" Oar am forty regular chicken
stealers in dis town, including Jim
Webster" remarked the old man.
Jim overheard the remark. so he
came right up to Nose and threatened
to eliminate him if he did not take it
back.
Den dar am forty regular chicken
stealers in Texas not includin' Jim
Webster. Is yer satisfied now?'.
Jim said, very much affected.
''Uncle Nose, when q man 'pologizes,
he jess disarms me right dar. Shake,
old man. faint often nowadays dat
anybody flatters me as you has Jess
done. "-Iezas Siftings.
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Nobody would think that the gentle
nan In the picture above was working
very hard, but he is. A good many
men would be willing to exchange
places with him just for the fun of be-
ing able to take hold of that young Ia
dy's canvas and tell her that the color
ing is all wrong; that it will never do
in the world and must all be done over
again. Not that the artists who in
struct ever do tell their pupils that sort
of thing; but one somehow fancies it
would be interesting to experiment in
that direction, just to see how far one
could 60 without an explosion from
the pretty lips that pout 80 earnestly
over the work. But however much the
mere outsider might like to change
places with the instructor, he could
not do it unless he lad as great repu-
tation in art matters as j. Carroll Beck
with, Thomas Eakins, J, Alden Weir or
the President.
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Take this interesting young woman
who does the the Merry-Little-M Noun
ain Maid act for the students. She
has sat so long for them and so often
in an Alpine hat, with an expression of
virgin innocence spread over her
countenance like cold cream on the
chapped face of a city belle at night,
that in off-duty hours she goes about
with her mouth half open, as if Swiss
yodel was in the act of escaping from
the parted lips. And when she stops
to talk for moment she stands with
her head thrown back and startled
fear in her big eyes, as if she were a
chamois poised on some jutting crag
away up the mountain. listening to the
hunters horn. 1t is all trick, but it
is done so often that it soon becomes
q real part of the girls personality.
When she gets into a prosaic street.
car she does it with an air of romantic
innocence and half-frightened country
coyness that always secures her seat,
no matter how great the crowd.
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A PGrf8Ct BnOy.

Old bachelor Ito young mother)-
The baby is rather small of its age9
Young mother (hesitatingly)-Ye-es,
rather.
Old bachelor-No teeth yet?
Young mother (faltcringly)-N-no,
not yet.
Old bacbe]or-Legs little bowed?
Young mother (dou otfully)-Er-at ri-
ie. perhaps.
Old bachelor-Nose small for tie rest
of its face?
Young mother (uncertainly)-Ye-es,
but it will grow.
Old bachelor-Cries most of the time?
Young mother (dubiously)- cries
little.
Old bachelor--Well. if the baby poss-
esses all of these defects why do you
call it the sweetest, incest, dearest, and
most beautiful baby in all the world?
Huh!
Young mother (triumphantly)-Be-
cause it is. SO there! You mean old
thing!
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What Relation?

A Nashville (Pa..) special relates
that on the. 18th of July, 1879, three
young couples were married by Justice
of the Peace Champion of that town.
ship. They were John Reyes and
Emma Jackson, John Clew and Jennie
Jackson, Emma's eldest sister, and
Eli Gathers and Laura Thorn all sons
and daughters of well-to-do farmers
Clew died the following January and
in March his widow became the mother
of daughter. In the latter part of
May the young widows sister, Emma
Reyes, died leaving daughter few
days old. Eli Gathers wife gave
birth to q son in August, 1881. In
April. 1881, she was left widow. In
that same month Jennie Jackson, the
widow of John Clew, was married to
John Keyes, her late sisters husband,
and became mother to both her own
and her sister child. In: July, 1882, Lau-
ra Thorn, the widow of Eli Gathers,
married William Clew, a brother of
Jennie Jackson's first husband, John
Clew. Her child was then nearly years
old. In January. 1883, Jennie Jack
son was left widow the second time.
John Reyes dying in that month,
leaving his widow with six months
old child, besides his child by his first
wife, Emma Jackson, and his widows
child by her first husband, John Clew.
In August, 1883. Laura Thorn pre-
sented her second husband, William
Clew. with daughter, her first child,
Charles Gathers, being then years
old. In February, 1884, she died. On
the Fourth of July, 1885. Jennie Jack
son, then but % years old, was married
for the third time, this time to William
Clew, the brother of her fist husband,
John Clew, and the late Laura
Thorn's second husband. By this
marriage she took tho place of a
mother to her dead friend Laura's
children, Charlie Gathers and Mamie
Clew, as she had to her dead sisters
child. On Wednesday last she gave
birth to twins. Her family of children
now consists of Annie Reyes. her sis
ter's child, aged nearly 6 years; Eva
Clew, her own child by her first hus-
band. aged 6; Charlie Gathers, the son
of Eli Gathers and Laura Thorn, aged
81; James Keyes, her child by her Sec
ond husband and brother-in-law, John
Keyes, aged nearly 4; Mamie Clew.
Laura Thorn's child by her second
husband, William Clew, aged about 3,
and now her twins, Willie and Emma
Clew, aged 5 days.
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POC0hOnkRa.

John Esten Cooke of Virginia has
made searching investigation of the
Pocahontas matter, and he is satisfied,
from all the evidence to be had, that
Smith was captured by a party of
Indians in 1907 and carried to the
Indian capital on York River, where
Powhatan ordered him to be slain.
Pocahontas interfered to save him.
She took Smiths head in her arms, so
that it was impossible to beat out his
brains without hitting her. Powhatan
consented to spare the prisoner, and
treated him kindly. Afterward Smith
released some Indian prisoners, stat
ing that it was for the sake of Pocahon-
tas. He told his friends in Jamestown
that Pocahontas had saved his life.
In letter to Queen Anne he said that
he would be guilty of the ''dcadly
poison ofingratitude" if he forgot the
goodness Of Pocahontas. In severa,
letters he gave to this girl credit for
his rescue from death. It was on this
that Pocahontas was flatteringly re-
ceived:sat the English court. After her
marriage to Rolfe she was baptized,
and lived .'civilly and lovingly with
her husband"
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Whore Laces ara Made.

The most of the handmade lace is
manufactured in Belgium, France and
England. Large quantities of lace are
also made by machinery in the two lat
ter countries and in the United States.
The application of machinery to this
delicate and intricate work has made
many kinds of lace very cheap. which,
when made by hand, never could have
been otherwise than expensive because
OF the labor required to complete
them. In Belgium, where avery large
part of the real lace is made (the
handmade laces are all called ''real,"
and machine laces ''imitation"), over
15O. 900 women are said to be employed
in lace-making, and the majority of
these work at home. There are 900
lace schools in the country. Probably
the most important center of the work
in that country is the city of Brussels.
A very expensive kind of lace is made
here. known as Brussels lace. which is
of very fine thread and intricate de-
sign. Mechlin Lace, which is very
fine and transparent, is made at Mech
AAAs &AAo"OA ~ AlCAACs 6uu
The manufacture of Valenciennes,
another favorite lace is extinct in it's
native city-whence it derived it's
name-but has obtained much pros
perity in Flanders. 1t is now chiefly
made at the towns of Ypres, Bruges,
Courtrai, Menin, Client, and Alost.
The productions of Ypres are of the
finest quality. In France few years
ago, the number of lace-makers was
estimated at 100000, but this total had
been considerably reduced by the use
of machinery in recent years. The point
d Alencon lace. which is very beauti-
full lace, made entirely by hand with a
fine needle, in small pieces. which are
afterward united by invisible seams, is
made principally at Bayeux. The
towns of Bayeux and Caen are especi-
ally noted for the manufacture of fine
black laces. Chantilly lace. which was
formerly made almost altogether at
Chantilly, is now made quite extern
sively at the two towns mentioned
above. The productions of the towns
of Lille and Arras are also we'll known.
Lille lace is very simple in design, but
very fine and beautiful. The lace of
Bailleul is strong and cheap, and extern
sively used for trimming.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-06-10
Love Of Books.

The late Mark Pattison, Rector OF
Lincoln, whose widow is now the wife
of Sir Charles Dixie, had a human fond
ness for his books. Nothing annoyed
him so much as to hear one of them
fall; and busting them which he reduc-
ed to science, seemed to give him
real pleasure. In his last illness the
sight of any of his favorites depressed
him greatly. "Ah," he would say,
am to leave my books" and some
times, "They have been more to me
than my friends" He would ask for
them one after the other, till he was
literally covered almost to his shout
ders as he lay, and the floor around
him was strewn with them. He used
to say that tho sight of books was nee
essary to him at his work; and once
reading how Schiller always kept "rot-
ton apples" in bis study because their
scent was beneficial to him, he pointed
to some shelves above his head, where
he kept his Oldest and most priced
editions, and said, There are my
rotten apples.'
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ious to give up his pencil for a mahlstick
and longed to talk color and tone and
chiaro-oscuro instead of photographic
fun and column rates. It is danger
GUS thing for layman, outside the
artistic pale, to spend an afternoon
among the young people who 60 three
times week to the pleasant rooms at
No. SO West Fourteenth street. 1t
makes him dissatisfied with his own
work no matter how congenial that
work has heretofore appeared. An
hour or two among the brushes and
palettes of the studio has q tendency to
draw him away from the practical
things of life in the direction of little
tubes of color aud boxes of paint with
names that somehow suggest the blue
of Italian skies. There is a delicious
air of make-believe work about the
whole place that looks so much like
play one longs to earn his living that
way.
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InvAlid.' Ho 81 and Surgical Institute.


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HE Committee of the French Cham
Der of Deputies having in charge the
Expulsion bill has decided that the
measure shall be compulsory, not per-
missive' and that it be applied to all
members of all families which at anv
time reigned in France.
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A SPLENDID bust of Andrew u.
White, late United States Minister to
Berlin. and formerly President of Cor
nell University, has been executed BY
the sculptor Simmons, in Rome. The
head is described as strongly modelled
and exhibiting the striking character
of the original.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-06-10

An Englishman who was told of the
recent assassinations at Paris, the perpe-
traitors OF which had not yet been dis
covered. made some remarks about the
sluggS'shness of the French police. lin
London. said he, ''our detectives would
have finished the thing up BY this
tlme.' They would have discovered
the guilty parties?" Il don't know
about that, but they certainly would
Paris Figaro.
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THE OLD WORLD

A rumor is gaining ground in England
that Mr.. Gladstone will advise the queen
to postpone dissolution of parliament on
the pretext of necessary legislation" the
object being to secure the passage Of the
amended registration bill, the effect of
which would DO 10 reduce the time of resi-
dence required for tenant franchises from
q years residence to six months, and per
maps three months. This would result in
large extension of the suffrage, and
would GER ainly be favorable to the tiber.
al cause. The Gladstoneitee welcome this
course If 1t can be made feasible. Thew
consider that in the additional time it
would give them they could certainly con
vert the country to the home rule doctrine.
They also entertain the hope that by avert.
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BLANCHE MILLER, a 16-year-old girl
diving near Union, Wis, swallowed
matches, took horse medicine, tasted
aconite, made way with spoonful of
Paris green, and drank bottle of tinct-
ure of iron, yet there is a possibility of
her recovery.
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JESSIE BENTON FREOMNT has made
decided impression upon the
social life of Washington during the
past season. She retains that wonder
full charm of conversation which has
always made her famous, and
wherever she is found is always sur.
rounded by enthusiastic admirers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-06-10

A BEAUTIFUL bronze statue of Gar.
field, completed months ago for the
city of Cincinnati, still lies in The
Government building in that civ for
lack OF the necessary funds to erect
the pedestal. So titful and ungencrous
are the emotions that animate when
power and presence are gone from the
man, who was an idol in his brief
hour.
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MUCH attention has been given in
Sweden of late to the subject of Gre
nation, and this method of disposinr
OF the human body after death seems
to meet with increasing favor in the
public mind. Arrangements are now
being perfected to erect creamatory
in Gothenburg, and it is thought that
$4,000 crowns will be ample to provide
suitable building and apparatus,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-06-10

UPON the day Of the marriage of
President Cleveland and Miss Folsom,
Queen Victoria sent the following ca
be message: ''Pray accept my sincere
congratulations on your marriage and
my best wishes for your happiness"
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II II, on the head-board of nv bed
There 1t is now. l don't understand IL
but l shall sooner or later. Then ri
van patent and I thought Id
better register it now, for great ideas
move in the same chsnnels. don't Won
know" 'oo
The bouncer was called in and tho
inventor was thrown into the stroot
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A MODEL.

it. To stand for ten minutes in an
MISUNDERSTANDING position.
then rest for moment and then jump
back into the Ajax attitude is not as
thrillingly interesting at it sounds.
One queer feature about nearly all
models who have been in the business
a year or more is interesting. The ex-
pressions of their face become as set as
an eight-day clock.