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Teaching the Beaux smaII TaIk.

\ certain young lady living III Wash
ington earns fine salary by teaching
American small talk to those young at
taches who are great beaux in society.
Her plan is simple enough. Her pupil
calls, is received, and converses with his
hostess teacher for two hours. The talk
is confined to drawing-room topics. This
wicked young teacher taught six young
fellows precisely the same round of
pretty and witty phrases, and at a certain
grand ball they were lowering around
one of the youngest and most popular of
the Washington girls, and each and
every one was saying the same things to
her. - Washington Cor. New Orleans
Ficayune.
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rhe pIsslmIlarltr OF rwIns.

Twins, although sometimes ludi-
crously like in features and characters,
are very unlike in other cases; while the
child which resembles one parent in
bodily features may not resemble it in
mental character. Nor have the halves
of double monsters always similar dis
positions. The Hungarian twin sisters
that lived united by the bottom OF the
back for % years had extremely different
temperaments, albeit after their deaths
their blood vessels were found TO com
municate, SO that the same blood served
them. The so-called Siamese twins,
again, who died few years ago, did not
live happily together to the end Of their
days; one gave way to drinking, thereby
disturbing much of the others comfort;
and they quarreled SO much on that ac-
count and because they took opposite
views of the American civil war that
they were earnestly eager TO have a
separation of bodies and consulted emf
nent surgeons on. the subject. Fort
nightly Review
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nc wife Of H,storIan nanorort.

A topic of conversation in American
society, writes q Paris correspondent, is
the lonely state of Mr.. George Bancroft,
the historian, who short time ago was
left widower at the age of Sc. had
short and agreeable acquaintance with
Mrs. Bancroft, when she and her husband
represented the United States republic at
Berlin. Had she lived another year she
would have celebrated her golden we'd
ding with Bancroft, who was her second
husband, They were an interesting
couple, She was ceremonious without
being prim or starched. Her smile
showed self-complacency free, however,
from conceit, and certainly wish to be
ton, and yet avoided drawing, and
brought out every word with clear dis
dnctness. Mr.. Bancroft, a white-bearded,
hale old gentleman, with fine eye, that
denoted sagacity and quick perception,
was, when she spoke of him, ~the minis
ter" or "my husband. He was as cere-
monious and as free from starch as his
wife. Their mental habits and mode of
speech were cultivated before tele-
graphese was invented and the reaction
toward blunt Anglo-Saxon phraseology
had taken places
Mrs. Banorofts conversation savored
of elegant extracts" 1t was pictur-
esquely and prettily old-fashioned.
only knew her when she was staying in
hotel; but ! was told that she was
notable, although by no means fussy.
housekeeper. and that the German crowd
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scribabIe intellectual capacity of taxing
root where the foot falls. Ambition here
seems to impel man no further than
desire to obtain money enough TO enable
him, whether he be an Englishman or
German, to return home and stop there.
A posterity may arise that viii be as
the vine bush is, or the gum tree-a pure
growth of South African soil, but with
antecedents with a beginning in white
hands. But down to the present moment
the symptoms are not those Of a coloniz-
alton such as created great republic
across the western ocean, such as has
builded an empire of cities and populous
towns in the distant Pacific. l say it is
pity; for you cannot think of the
mighty tracts of the green and beautiful
country stretching in mountains and val
leys and plains to the equatorial ATTITUDES
and of the dreadful poverty you see and
hear of and read about in London and
throughout Great Britain and Ireland
without deep regret that the land should
be universally declared to offer no OPP
portunities to those in need of bread
Cor. London Telegraph.
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HANDLE YOUR MONEY CAREFULLY.
One of the Channels Through Which
Disease May be Disseminated.

One of the Channels Through Which
Disease May be Disseminated.
In the numerous speculations as to the
variety of ways and channels through
which the germs of contagious disease
may be disseminated, there is one to
which but little or no importance has
thus far been attached, but which, never
theless, probably plays an important role.
We refer TO that universal circulating
mediunl-money. 1t passes impartially
from the hand of the millionaire into
that of the beggar, constantly circulating
through every class and condition OF So
ciety. The person of fastidious tastes,
who will turn from his path rather than
risk coming into actual contact with
others of uncIeanly dress or person will
receive, handle and carry in his pocket
without the slightest symptoms of dis
gust, or perhaps without giving it
thought, money that has thousands of
times passed through hands or reposed
in pockets whose contact he would deem
to be pollution.
In respect to the dangers that may
arise from this cause, paper money is
undoubtedly more to be feared than
coin, and the indescribably filthy APP
pearance of much of that which is seen
in circulation is familiar to all who read
this. That the handling of such nasty
stuff is often fraught with serious dan
ger, no sensible person can doubt. 1t
would be well if the system said to be in
vogue in certain countries of Europe, of
destroying every note that comes into
the banks and issuing new ones in their
stead were practiced with us, though
even this would only to some extent
lessen and not do away with the danger.
But though paper currency is the most
to be feared on the score of communicate
ing disease, coin is by no means free
from danger of the same kind. 1t has
been shown that the blackish coating,
which may be seen in the recesses and
in the milled edges of coins that have
been in circulation for short time, con-
sists of organic filth which when intro
duced into distilled water and examined
under the microscope was found to be
swarming with bacteria and fungi.
We are not sanguine enough to expect
that our readers shall decline to touch or
handle the stuff, for the reasons here
pointed out, but we can not refrain from
uttering our protest against the unutter-
able nastiness, of which many persons
are guilty who would feel themselves
deeply insuIted at any insinuatiOn of a
lack of refinement or good breeding, of
placing paper currency or coin in the
mouth for temporary convenience, while
making change or the like. The most
disgusting habit is, singularly enough,
confined almost exclusively to woman
kind, and is an act of thoughtlessness
which, if any who read this ever prac-
ticed, we feel sure they will never do
again. -Manufacturer and Builder.
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The Process of Thought Transference.
"As 10 the process by which thought
is transferred from one brain to another,
it is impossible at present to determine.
The committee on thought trausferepce
observe:
at is quite open to surnnise some sort
of analogy to the familiar phenomena OF
the transmission and reception of vibra-
tory energy. A swinging pendulum sus-
pended from a solid support will throw
into synchronous vibration another pen
dulum attached to the same support, if
the period or oscillation of the two be
the same, the medium of transmission
here being the solid material of the sup
port. One tuning fork or string in unison
with another viii communicate its i'm
pulses through the medium of the air.
Glowing particles of a gas. acting
through the luminiferous ether, can
throw into sympathetic vibration cool
molecules of the same substance at
distance, A permsnent magnet brought
into a room =viii throw any surrounding
iron into a condition similar to its own;
and here the medium OF communication
is unknown. Similarly we may conceive,
if we please, with many modern philoso-
pliers, that for every thought there is a
corresponding motion of the brain, and
that this vibration of molecules of BRAIN
stuff may be communicated to an inter
vening medium, and so pass under GER
tain circumstances from one brain to
another, with corresponding stimuli
taneity of impressions no more than In
the case of the magnetic phenomena is
any investigator bound to determine
the medium before inquiry into the fact
of transit, -Globe-Democrat.
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An Art-student,s I.ife An Par,s.

A Detroit youth studying in Paris
writes home: "The impressionist is not
upheld, even ever SO slightly, and stu
dynt cannot work as he likes First of
al drawings must be in charcoal-no
;rayons, pencils, or stumps are allowed
and the charcoal used here is hard, taking
very fine point like pen. In making
a study from life one must use charcoal
paper, and your study must be finished
without resort to rubbing fiat shadows
ON patches of light and shadow made
through any other means than the point.
Thus you see your study is drawing at
every stage, and you can not resort to
tricks or accident. In drawing a
head or the anatomy Of an
arm or leg one is taught by
this means not only the use of a point,
but he is instructed most accurately in
actual movements of the muscles, ten
dons and bones; thus fixing in the stu
dents mind with more certainty and
more lasting effect the values of art
lines and physiological construction. 1t
is drawing in the true sense of the word,
without any nonsense whatever.
Student life does not seem expensive.
On the contrary, it is proving quite rea-
sonable. We get weIl-cool1ed dinners in
most quaint and artistic little restau-
rants for francs-40 cents of our money
and our studios cost us but So a month
with coffee included, served each morn
ing in our studios. Our school, our tut
ton, is $12 month, and so you see one
can live well here. n-Exchange
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nesssr BE B1lnd rl,an Deaf and Dumn

Better BE Blind Than Deaf and Dumb.
Are not the blind proverbially cheer
full, and is not this beneEcent, useful,
and compensating quality in thenF AS
rule, we carry our cross gayly, and it
is constant source of wonder to many
that we can keep up our spirits in face OF
the calamity. Contrasted with the deaf
our bearing is remarkable; they are
prone to look gloomy and morose, while
we are, I think, usually the reverse.
The secret is that it is far more depress-
ing and miserable to live in silence than
in darkness. AS proof of this, watch a
deaf person sitting apart with saddened
expression and suspicious glance quick
travelling in all directions. The whole
aspect and demeanor of the man changes
on the instant some one speaks to him in
his own tongue-on the fingers, that is
to say. The silence in which he lives is
dispelled; he has found an equivalent for
his ears.
Give, then, the blind man in his fingers
an equivalent for his eyes and the dark
ness in which he lives is dispelled. His
mood, if happy, simply becomes happier,
in that he has an, occupation, the source
of all happiness. The situation is not
changed if the occupation be directing
or listening instead of technical. No;
must repeat this is a misunderstanding
of the powers of the blind which has
hitherto retarded their fullest develop
ment. They have been too much rele-
gated to the ranks of the incompetent,
too much set aside as class by them
selves, instead of being accepted as intel
hgent, useful, working members of the
community. F'ortnightly Review.
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When the Boy Fell Downstairs

Horace was standing in the upper hall
one day doing something which his
mother disapproved of and ordered
stopped. He continued at it after one or
two prohibitions, and finally she started
toward him. He darted toward the
stairway and down the stairs with such
haste that he went two, three and. four
steps at a time, and landed in a heap ON
the floor. Gathering himself up, he
managed to climb upon chair, and sat
there putting and painting until his
frightened mother reached him, when
he was just able to gasp out, Mother,
you oughtn't-to-to-hurry me SOL
HaYper's Razar
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The throat of fhe Bull Snake.

Professor Theodore Gill, of the Smith
sonian Institution, says of the bull or
pine snake, which is found in many parts
of the country: This reptile has become
notorious en- account of the sound it
emits. It is very much like the low bel
low of a bull, and to this the snake owes
one of its names. This is caused by the
fact that the epiglottis, an organ absent
or represented only by tubercle in all
other serpents, is abnormally developed
in the bull snake. Chicago Ledger.
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How Gladstone Prepares Hi.

How Gladstone Prepares His Speeches.
We are told on good authority that
this is Mr.. Gladstene's method of prepar-
ing his speeches: He keeps a box into
which he is in the habit of throwing cut
tings from newspapers and other mem
oranda of facts bearing upon the subject
in hand The morning of the day pre-
ceding any great Grafton he goes through
this box and picks out his notes of the
particular facts which he wishes to use
These he gums in their proper order
upon large sheet of paper, and uses
them as the posts upon which the speech
itself is to be hung. Then he imagines
himself to he actually speaking
poses his grafton, IL fact, in his head.
After he is satisfied with it, he dismisses
the subject from his mind, and occupies
himself until the hour for speaking
comes in reading a novel! His memory
is so great that his previously composed
sentences come lack to him without
effOrt.-London Whitehall Review.
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An old bachelor in Berlin has for
many years pact been engaged in form
ing - collection of boot and shoe heels,
Of which he has now over 1000, which
are exposed to view in hadsome glass
c;tas and numbered and catalogued with
the dates and names of the original own
Sc. TIE notion was first suggested to
him ga -iIe 9th of June, 1861, when on a
visit q IN, ..ucient castle OF Kinast in
company 4 a beautiful Swedish lady,
who lost the heel off one of her boots.
That particular boot heel became the
first aud most valued item in the entire
collection. Chicago Herald.
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princess picked up many American CUT
mary notions when dining at the table
such as cranberry preserves with roast
mutton, oyster soup, pumpkin pie, ard
doughnrts. one day had the pleasure
of walking round horticultural show
with Mrs. Bancroft, who 1 found was an
enthusiastic rose-fancier, and could teach
most of the gardeners who exhibited inn
proved methods of cultivating different
species of roses. She was also walking
biographical encyclopedia. Who was
there within the last sixty-six ears in
Europe or America that either be or she
had not known or seen or hetrd about
from mutual friends?
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Strength of tho French Army.

The following are the latest figures of
the strength of the French army. They
are taken from the book, %Avant la
Bataille," which was published recently
by the Patriotic League" and has been
sort of nine days wonder in Paris.
There are eighteen corps darmee, COM
prising $50 battalions of infantry, 153
squadrons of cavalry, and 324 batteries.
The total effective force is said to be:
Officers, 10, 738; men, 671 1892; horses, 200,-
O92; guns, 1874; carriages, 38, 754. DE
troit Free Press.
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Happiness of an American Farmer.

European writers are constantly mysti-
fed by the climatic anomalies of the
North American continent. NJ. Hip
polyte Taine, the French Macaulay, once
contrasted the misery of Paris slum
alley drudge with the happiness of an
American farmer grazing his herds in
the palm-groyes shading the banks of the
Ohio. Now German enthusiast extols
Milwaukee as that "beauteous lake city
in the latitude of Venice" suggesting
orange gardens and Venetian nights. 1t
must puzzle such eulogists to account
for the thousands of Scandinavians who
seem to feel at home on the prairies of
that blest summerland.-pr, Felix L.
Oswald
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Another Form of Code-signa1inr.

Steno-telegraphy is one of the most in
teresting among the many methods de-
vised for increasing the capacity of tele-
graph lines. 1t may be said to be another
form of code-signaling in which an alb
breviated sign may indicate a word or
even a sentence. The manipulation on
this system naturally requires long prac-
tice, which is one of its drawbacks, but
the results obtained compare quite favor
ably with those of other fast SYSTEMS
Frank Leslies,
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An 1neident in pioneer Life.

An incident in New York pioneer life
may show what times were in 1900.
MY mother said to her nearest neigh
Dor. Mrs. Roe, living a mile and half
distant: I have got a fleece now, for l
have carded the colt and picked the
wool out of an old bed guilt and am
making stockings Mrs. Roe repliedi
so have got fleece, for shaved our
dog. and with wool from bed blanket
will soon have pair of stockings, too. 7"
A short time after that the whole neigh
borhood footed it four miles to see two
sheep, so great was the sight.-Chicago
Herald
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Separating Aluminium from COrundum

Separating Aluminium from COrundum.
AS an instance of the need of one por-
ton of our country for every other por-
ton, may refer to corundum, which is
now mined in North Carolina, near Ash
vile, to be sent to Locl1port, N. Y, a
distance, should think, by rail, of 800
miles. Some young men in Cleveland
have invented a process of separating
aluminium from cOrundum, the latter
containing 80 per cent. of aluminium,
which, while the most generally distrib-
uted substance or element on the globe,
has been hitherto inseparable in quanti
ties from the sand Or clay with
which it was impurely mixed. You
could throw it on top of the highest blast
furnace on the globe and it would not
melt at all. The new blast furnace at
Lockport is to melt it by electricity.
Yet even now they do not undertake to
separate it, except from corundum.
aluminium is a remarkable metal, not
known till 1928; not handled till 1854; it
gives tremendous tensile property TO iron
and copper, makes wrought iron adapt
itself for castings, and little of it has
all the influence of gold in arts; by itself
it looks like lead or tin, but it is hardly
heavier than wood. The young men
who invented this process have spens
$4,000 at it.-George Alfred TowT.
send.
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a Valuable Hint for Draughtsmen.

Sometimes the draughtsman wishes to
erase a line without removing other parts
of the work or damaging a line which
cuts the line to be removed. In the above
case, lay a sheet of paper upon the line it
is desired to save, and with an India
rubber eraser the desired line can be re-
moved. and you can work clean and
sharp to within one thousanth of an inch
of the parts desired to be left.-American
NTopbiniSt
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Where Language Arc Best Spoken.

The best French is always spoken in
Paris, where there is an ininlitable ac-
cent which makes law. The best Eng
lish is certainly spoken in Dublin. Tho
best German is spoken in Vienna, al
though always liked the Dresden artic-
ulation. In Florence they speak the
best Italian, but the Romans pronounce
it better-Lngna Toscana in bocee Io-
mana. never heard more musical Eng
lish than from the lips of educated New
York ladies, and there is . peculiar
charm in the old French spoken by the
pretty women Of Quebsc.-Montreal Ga.
Zette.
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the art or know the trick of destroying
for the time the readers own personality
Undoubtedly the easiest way of doing
this is by the creation of a host of rival
personalities-hence the number and
popularity of novels. Whenever novel
list fails his book is said to flag; that is
the reader suddenly Gas in skating) comes
bump down upon his own personality,
and curses the unskillful author. No lack
of characters and continual motion is the
easiest recipe for a novel, which like
beggar, should always be kept moving
on" Nobody knew this better than
Fielding, whose novels, like most good
ones, are full of inns.-MacmilIan'
Magazine.
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Changing Poor Pine to walnut.

A striking similarity to black walnut,
it is said, can be manufactured from poor
pine by the following method: One part
of walnut peel extract is mixed with six
parts of water, and the wood is coated
with the solutions. When the material is
about half dry, a solution of bichromate
of potash with water is rubbed on it, and
the walnut is ready. In this way excel
lent walnut can he made from poor pine,
and it is said to defy detection except
upon very close examination. -Exchange
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The Lessons of the Gymnasium

1t is one of the first lessons of the gym
nasium, given TO each on entering, anG
held up to him during all the time he re-
mains, that these exercises are not excer-
cises of vanity or jugglery, but are in
tended to prepare for the work which
benefits man, and for responding to
the noblest calls of life; that their aim is
to form healthy, strong, valiant, glad
some man, to endow his body with
strength and endurance to render him
fit to undergo the hardships of
a march and the work of the
camp and battlefield. Vanity and
empty swagger are restrained; chastity
is taught to be the first duty of every
German and Christian; beings effeminate
or dissolute are pointed at with abhor
renee, and none are allowed to stay in
this strict and honorable association who
have done, or suffered to be done, any.
thing infamous or vicious.-Arndt.
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somethinc for noiIs and Carbuneles.

1t is stated on good medical authority
that the application Of a solution of men
thol in ether applied to carbuncIes, boils
or other inflammatory troubles, will, in
many instances, entirely avert them.
The solutions that have been used vary
from 10 to so per cent. of menthol, and
application is made by a camers hair
brush to the affected portion.--Chicago
Journal.
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The Doe Did Not Count seven.

It is one thing to think by resem-
blances and another thing to think by
symbols. A story was recently published
by NJ. Dubuc of pointer which lad
learned after few years that its master
went hunting every Sunday, while on
the other days he went to business; and
NJ. Dubuc concluded that the animal had
learned to count up to seven.
The conclusion is not legitimate; il
may even be said to be wrong. The dog
distinguished Sunday by some features
that were peculiar to it--by the move
ments about the house, the behavior and
Sunday dress of the servants, the dress of
the master, or any one or more of a number
of things that make Sunday different
from other days of the week; but we
may say without contradiction that it
did not count seven. We, our
selves, if we were restricted
to a life absolutely uniform, would
not be able to distinguish the seventh
day without mnemotechnic aids, and as
a rule we seldom recollect the day or
the date except by the assistance of in
trinsic circumstances Science
Monthly.