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A Bold WhaIer in the Far North.

During tho past season the steam
whrlcrs in the Arctic ha visited por-
t on of the ocean lying to the eastward
of Point Barrow. This is the first time
since 1853 that any vessels have been
able to go so far through the ice.
Since the time that lshing for bow.
head whales has been the occupation OF
wha!emen in the Arctic ole ean the mas
ters have endeavored to follow the big
fish that are supposed to run along the
northeast shores of the American con-
tinent, rarely going, however, beyond
the Return reef This past season the
veteran whaleman, Captain Bauldry, IN
the steamer urea, reached point but
fifty miles from Hershcl Island, near the
mouth of the Mackenzie River. He OBJ
tanned but one whale, and he states that
there was considerable difficulty In
catching the fish owing to heavy drift
ice.
Captain Bauldry says that he and the
other Captains met natives from Herschel
Island and points to the eastward of the
Mackenzie River. Their facial appear
ance is said to be similar to that of the
North American Indians, while their
language is almost identical with that OF
the Greenland aborigi es. They were
verv reluctant to visit the steamers, and
expressed greatsurprise at the machinery
and other gear, stating that they hao
heard of the "bi g canoes' but had never
seen one. The shore of the ocean is lined
with immense piles of driflwood, some
of the logs being very large in size; 1t
was stated by the natives that the driit-
wood is brought down to the sea in the
spring by the Mackenzie River, and it IS
then carried by the current to the we t.
ward. f. or some time past the whalemen
have been told By natives that quantities
of whalebone could be procured at Her,
schel Island, but rs they never reached
that DO Mt the story is doubted. This
wear, however, venturesomc boat steerer
has gone with a party of natives in a
whale ooat to visit the island and as tar
eastward as be can get. The result OF
his Journey will be known to the whale
men in August next, when they arrive at
Point Barrow, and it is safe to state II
" hales or whale one are to Le had at
Herschel Island that vessel will en-
deavor to reach that polnt.-San Fran-
ciyo Chronicle.
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The Bells Of Japan.

The bells of Japan are among its
lovel.est possessions. One OF the sweet
est of them rang out many times every
day into the waiting air, in this far-away
little city. Its tone was intensely
thrilling and pathetic. The bells are not
sounded by clapper within, but are
struck from the outside by sort OIL
wooden arm, or battering-ram. Being
Withdrawn to the proper distance and
released, it strikes the bell once-and
the strokes are allowed to succeed one
another only with diguiiied and stately
regularity. Tradition says the finest
bells have much silver in their compost
ton, which may account for their deep
and wonderful sweetness. Whether TINS
be so or not, the bells make profound
impression upon all sensitive or musical
organizations, heretofore accustomed TO
the more d;scordaut church-bells OF
newer civilization. :,
And never did the lovely temple:b bell
in Shirakawa ring out so sadly and deli
ciously as one night when great flre
laid waste portion OF the city. thirty
or forty houses made fine b azc TOT TWO
or three hours, and We watched it from
the castle wall with pity and Interest;
The cracking of The flames as they licked
ND one little thatchcd roof after an"thes
was terribly audible: so, too. we're the
helpless cries and shouts Of the sur
rounding crowd-while the red cinders
were whirlcd far aloft. and fell even
around us. But through the confusion
and tumult. the calm bell rang OUT It's
indescriba5ly beautiful note-in quicker.
succession than usual, but losing none OF
its dignity and sweetness, for all the dis
cordant sounds around us.-S. Ni;hoLds.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Visiting Card Etiquette.

The question of the propriety of turn
ing down the corners of visiting cards
is debated now and then; and most per-
sons, whatever they think of the Gus
tom, Mt least regard the trick as COM
parativcly recent one. In Il book of eti-
quette published in this country about
half century ago the author remarks:
g. aides have fashion OF pinching
down one corner of a card TO denote
that the visit is to only one of two par
ties in house, and two corners or one
side of the card, when the visit is to
both; but this is a transient mode and of
dubious respectability." The s;gnifi-
canoe Of turning the corners is different
to-day except that the end is doubled to
denote that call is for all the members
of family; but who had supposed the
custom to be ''of dubious respectahility:"
Boston Courier.
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An Antique Quilt.

The craze for the antique exists as
strong among those who collect speci-
mems of household wor as among their
more fashionable brethren who collect
brio .a.brac and works of art. In Geor-
cla, according to a local investigation,
there is quilt worth possessing. 1t was
made by Mrs. Annie Mitchell during the
first year of her married life, in 1872 and
1913. 1t required twelve long, weary
months to complete. The cotton of which
this beautiful piece of work was made was
picked by Mrs. Mitchell and her husband,
robert Mitchell, during the honeymoon
of the then newly married coupe. After
the cotton was separated from the seed
the Young wife brought out her little
spinning jenny and as her husband
talked or cad to her she transformed the
cotton into smooth thread aud carefully
spooled it for the work before her. Af-
ter sufficient quantity had been pre-
pared and it took many months to &C
complish her task-AIrs. Mitchell
brought the old loom that her mother
had given her into service and in short
time the cloth was ready for the finishing
touches. Turkey rcd and indigo thread
was then prepared hy the dyeing pro-
cess, the counterpane laid off into beau
tiful designs and the tedious work OF en-
broidrring was commenced. Soon after
the work Of embroidering was commenced
Mrs. Mitchell was stricken with disease,
and for twelve months was not able to
set up except as she was propped in her
bed, but her nimble fingers were kept
busy, and finally the greatest piece of
artistic needle work of that day was
ready for inspection. - Chic"go Times.
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Dress of q Japancse Woman.

The dress of Japanese woman of the
upper classes begins with the yumoji.
a rectangular piece of stuff wrapped
around the loins and reaching to the
knee, like the towel of shampooer.
Over this comes beautiful garment
called the :aban, q robe like a perfectly
simple bath. gown with square sleeves,
fitting closely to the body, and generally
made of delicate and pale colored silk
Grape. In winter an additional garment
called the shtagi goes over this-all the
garments of Japanese woman after the
first pctticoat are i,entical in shape and
fit into one another like nest OF boxes.
In summer over the iban comes the outer
dress, called for either man or woman
the kim mo. This may be made OF pretty
cotton stuffs or cotton Grape for the
household wear, or of silk Grape or SILK,
or the richest embroidery and brocade
for full dress and ceremonial occasions.
1t is tied at the waist with q long sash OF
soft silk Grape, called the hoso-obl,
wound around several times. Round
the weaIer's waist, above this, is worn,
that most striking feature of Japanese
female costume, the obi. This is piece
of the thickcst silk or brocade about
twelve feet long and thirty inches wide,
and may cost anywhere from s. to
$500. It is the pride of the Japanese
woman, and magnificent obi IS the
Japarese equivalent for the conventional
diamonds which lover gives his sweet
heart with us. The tying of an obi IS n
very di cult task, and reveals the taste
and cultivation of the wcarer almost as
much as the throw of the himatlon did IN
Greece. Indeed, a woman can hardly tic
her obi properly without assistance. he
stuff is folded lengthwise, giving it o
breadth of about fifteen inches, then
wound very tightly twice round the
waist, with the folded edge downward,
thus making deep and handy ,Iocket
in the fold. One end is measured to the
left knee and left loose, then the long
loose end behind is turned round at a
right angle and left fal into an enor-
nous bow, then the bottom of this bow
is gathered up into a smaller inner Low,
the short loose end is turned back upon
the end of this, and flat elastic SILK
band, called the obi-domc, Is stretched
over this to hold both ends and both
bows in place, brought round to the
front, and the two ends hooked together
in little gold ornament of some kind.
This description is doubtless uNin-
telligible, but the process is difficult
enough to follow, to say nothing OF de,
scribing it. The costume is completed
by a pair of tabi, white boots with a
separate place for the great toe, like DR..
Jaegcr's digitated stockings, the sole
made of thick woven cotton and the
upper part of white silk. Sometimes a
chemisette, or han-ycri, of delicately
worked or embroidered silk is worn
under the kimono to show pretty &c
round the open neck and to keep the
chest warmer as WE'LL Washington Star.
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Oats the Uncrowned King of Cereals.

The oats crop in this country, as III
Fran, e, is becoming king of the cereals,
not alone of its own great value, but as
the cssent al to successful horse raising.
The oats crop of the United states last
wear shows a wonderful increase and
there IS an increased acreage for 1889.
The crop last year is above the acreage
of The last five years, and is G5", zoe, ,OVo
bushels, 5000, 100 mole than the year
before. Ten States-lllInoIs, Iowa, New
York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pcnnsyl-
yanir, Ohio. Indiana, Missouri and Kan.
sas, produce about two-thirds OF the en-.
tire crop. Last year the total export OF
oats was little less than 5000, "OU bush.
els. Note these States that produce the
oat crops are the horse raising states.
They are all the great draft horse
breeding States, and the oats crop OF
these States, marketed in gra,ie draft
horses, brings the best price of any crop
raised. -N.D Orie!ns Pim5une.
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A Russian Horse Census.

The report Of the hnrns of the Russian
Empire states that there are $4,000. DLC
horses in that country, not including
Finland and the Caucasus. In the six
State lara, there were last year 224!l
horses Isl stations, 155 mares, and
16 y foals), and 40 horses were sold
from them for 11. 4O7 rublcs. There are
sixty.two hippodromes in Russia, and
the prizes run for amount to 700, ooe
rubles. of which the State contributed
20 OOO rubles. There were seventy
seven horse exhibitions during the year,
and of II, 32S exhibited 2Oi2 were sold
The total expenses ofthe haras amounted
to s go, 900.
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BE KIND TO THYSELF.

ComDs tho message from above
'As thysolf, thy neghbor love"
With myself so vexed 1 grow
Of my weakness weary so,
Easier may l tolerate
My neighbor than myself not hurt
Take not part of thee for whole.
Thou art n.i .hbor TO thy soul:
The ray from heaven that gilds the cioa
Love thou, for it comes from God.
Bear thou with thy human clay
Lest thou miss the heaven-sent ray.
E S. Martin, in Scribner.
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ent tanks. thus separating different
grades of sugar. One charge of bone
black will run out in about twenty
hours. Any sugar remaining is washed
out with q stream of running water, and
the bone black is renewed by returning.
To filter one ton Of sugar takes about the
same quantity of bone black.
The liquid sugar is now refined. Il
remains to or, stalize it. This is &C.
comp!ished in the vacuum pan. This is
u very large copprr boiler with an air
tight cover. When the sugar has boiled
long enough it is let out into recepta-
Gle. fol loaf sugar it is run into molds
as it cools. After standing several days
the moIds arc turned over and the brill
liant white cone, called the sugar loaf,
is drop ed out. 1t is not seen as much
as IN former days, but it is made just the
same, being sawed up to make the square
Jumps, regarded as the incest thing in
the market Pulverized sugar is the
dust from other kinds and granulatcd is
mostly the product of centrifugal ma
chimes that throw off the crystaliziHg
mas into grains. The machine is one
drum within another. The inner is
pierced with fine holes and revolves
with Lightning rapidIty. The syrup is
let in, and rs it whirls it changes from
dark 10 light brown, then yellow and
suddenly becomes snow white. This is
because the speed OF the drum turns off
all the free coloring liquid, leaving only
the white, solid crystals.
The barrcling of sugar is a curious
operation. i.ach barrel stands on small
frame that is so moved 10y machinery that
the barrel is given au Irregular motion,
the sugar being settled almost solid by
the bobbing and nodding as it pours
slowly in from spout. Soft sugars can
not be packed in such a way, but are
packed with press like -four.
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How to Resuscitaic the Painting.

VERY few persons know how to at
tend 10 one who has faintcd," said a
doctor recently to a reporter for tho New
\ ork .Maii "ml ErpesS. They will often
insist on raising fainting persons to a
sitting or upright position. This is u
great mistake, and Is sufficient to destroy
the spark of life which remains. 4 short
time ago an eminent English statesman
d ed by this action, and il holding all
INQUEST the coroner was very emphatic in
telling how wrong those who had ut
tended him hud been. When persons
faint the best thingto do is to keep
them in a prone position while restora-
tives and local means urc applied to en-.
abse them, il possible, to regain con-
sciousness.
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Social Distinctions.

In ain ost all nations of the world
even in Oriental countries-women Of the
lower class do rough or menial work, and
are paid money for it, but they are
looked down upon accordingly. lr the
half-medi eval Portuguese colony of Fayal
the poorest families try to keep one
daughter from working in the orange
groves; she lives indoors, goes shroudcd
in deep ca3,ote, and never ventures into
the streets without her mother, and if
she earns living by embroidery at
homo the world does not know it. Even
the higher forms of industry among our
selves were long held to be soc ally igno-
BILE. Bookkeeping, clerkship, typcwrit-
ing, arc still liable to this criticism if
pursued by women; and when Lady
Ambcrlcy. the danghter-in-law of Earl
Russell, was in this country, and desired
to meet some women physicians, lady
in the best society of Philadelphia
brought on herself some sharp criticism
by inviting two of this then prescribed
class TO meet her ladyship ut large en-
tcrtainment. 1t must always be remem-
bcrcd, however, that even in case of men
1t has taken long for common sense to
prevail against this old-time hierarchy of
employments. A century ago Or. Sam.
ucl Johnson described actors and musi-
clans as "amusing vagabonds," and de,
fined an English merchant as "a new
species of gentleman" To this day it is
considered in England matter of social
discredit to be in trade" as many
American women have found to their
cost after marrying English merchants.
One of this class cannot yet be presented
at court. This seems to us absurd in a
country which owes so much of its great.
ness to its commerce, and which has
tecn called "a nation of shop keepers y
but it is no more absurd than the dis.
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Ben raleSe DianaS.

A peculiar custom exists among the
aboriginal tribes of Ranchi, a group of
hamlets IN Bengal. 1t is known as the
Era Sendra, or womens hunt. On the
present. occasion the beet was to expel
The cholera demon, and it is usual when
any great calamity overi axes the land for
the women to dress themselves up in
meu's clothes, arm themselves and go
out to hunt, not in the iun".es,
but in the nearest villages east of
them. They chase pigs and fowls,
and every thing they kill is theirs. They
also levy blacNmail from the heads OF the
villages for the purchase of liquor. The
villagers cannot prevent the slaughter OF
their animals, but the headmcn generally
compromise matters by giving the hunt
rcsses pig and raying small sum. To-
ward evening the hunting party rctires
to o nei-hboring stream, where they
cook and cat the meat and drink the
liquor. They eat nothing after this meal,
but bathe and return home. Men are
not allowed to accompany them on such
occasions, and they conduct themselves
for the time being in very masterful
and masculine manner.-1tmes, Of India.
Courtship Among Kafirstan Tribes.
q Katir, having fixed his affections
upon some female, acguaints his parents
with his intentions. They apply to the
girls parents, and if the latter do not
consent to the union a fight IS inevitable.
If the parties agree. the next proceeding
is to appoint two expert female negotia-
tors, who obtain access by strategem to
the house with the object of broaching
the subject to the young lady. They
carefully avoid, says the writer in the
Lewiston Journal, any sudden or abrupt
mention of the awful subject of their
mission, but launch out praises of the
man who seeks her hand. They speak
of his possessions, his courage aud ac-
complishmcnts. The girl, pretending
to be afTronted at even these remote
hints, grows refractory and runs away,
tearing the ringlets Of her hair as she
retires.
The female ambassadors having got
the consent of the parents, drag her from
her concealment and carry her by force
to the house of her destined husband and
there leave her. She is compelled to
live here several days, silent and dc.
iected, refusing food, till at last, ii kind
entreaties do not prevail, she is made to
submit by blows to the union.
The Katir who has the reputation of
having committed number of murders
of Mohammedans n;oys exceptional
privileges. He is respected by all the
neighhors and experiences little or no
difficulties in procuring q vile.
The Kair woman is doomed to a life
of toll and drudgery and the husband
can discard her whenever he feels so
disposed.
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tinction still prevailing in one of out
larger cities, where wholesale merchant,
on however small scale, is admitted to
what is called 'society." and retail
dealer, though he may handle millions,
is excluded. -l1rgonnMt.
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Mistress (aftcr heavy crash in the
kitchen below)-"Bridget, l hope you
haven't broken that new vase l brought
home today" Bridget-"No. mem;
it's one O. the limmin meringe pieS that
YES was abakiu' this aftern IN"
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the bottom.
The top ioor is the defeating depart
ment. Here are rows of square tanks six
feet high, filled with the LIQUID forced
up from the mixers kept at 10 deg ces
temperature. The process here is exactly
like clearing coffee with the VIII to of au
egg, except that bullocks blood acts as
the albuminous matter in clearing out
the dlegs and sediments. In half an
hour the liquid is well cleared and is
drawn off to be strained. The nc t floor
below is covered with series of cutters,
under which hang the bag filters, con-
sisting of coarse cotton twill four or nve
feet long and few inches around. The
LIQUID from the defecator runs down the
cutters and into and through the bags,
and thence into tanks. It is now bright
but brown -colored syrup, in which ale
still some impurities in soluble form,
that are got rid of by tilterins
through charcoal. The filter is on the
principle of one used to clear
drinking water, but is mastodonlc
affair, twenty feet deep and onc-half as
wide. The animal charcoal called bone
black has peculiar properties no one
understands. 1t clears the syrup of all
impurities held in solution, as well as all
false color. A large refinery will have
GOO or more of these filters that have a
large 'mauhole' at the top, and hold
from twenty-five to forty tons of bone
black. The syrup from the tanks ADORE
is run into the filters, and, after standing
seven or eight hours, is drawn off. At
the first the syrup is crystal clear, and is
discharged into the tank from which the
whtest and highest grade of sugar is
made. AS the power of tie bone black
is exhausted the syrup takes on a straw
tinge that grows to amber. Asthe colors
chsn"e the flow is directed into ditler-
Telegram-herald., 1888-05-06

Another cyclone of speciality stars are
announced tor the coming week. three
shows combined in one. introducing Minnie
Burroughs Female Msjestics. presenting an
elaborate minstrel scene. elegant costumes
aud scenic effects. and an olio OF unsur.
passed novelties, concluding each evening
with beautiful ouriesque entitled Earl
Darniey." The celebrated European Star,
Mons. Hswette. eqailiorist. in wonderful
svfnaastic leats, Miss Belle Fsirmount,
song and dance and skipping rope dancer,
he worlds greatest mimic, Warren q.
Richards, the celebrated female imperson-
ster. J. Arthur Doty. the artistic sketch duo.
BOBBY AMI Lottis Daily. Chas. and Minnie
Burroughs IN beautiful statues. Mss Carrie
Ezier, the artistic black face song aud dance
artists, together with a mammoth company
Of stock stnrs. making brilliant entertain
ment. n fact. the best Manager Smith has
offered this season to the patrons OF bis
cczy amusement resort
Telegram-herald., 1888-05-06
What are Want MOtRers to Knosc.

That we are Headquarters for Boys and Chill
drens Stylish Clothing. Yes Clothes for big and
little boys that you'll like at first glimpse-so
bright, so modest mot always easy to be bright and
modest at the SINE time) kits, Knee and Long
Pant Suits, Shirt Waists, separate short and long
Pants together with Light Weight Overcoats made
into all the new shapes and styles. There are
many lovely novelties shown by Us tha5 are Ii tie
more pronounced some of them than we displayed
last season, yet none obtrusive. No big staring
figures that will cause you to exclaim, Zoo loud"
but hundreds of nobbiest effects that will hold their
own Though thick and thin. As we write the new
Spring and Summer goods are in, and coming from
our Factory and everywhere else 1T seems for, IN
addition to our own manufacture, the world is our
market, and truly the late arrivals are SO bright
and pretty we must stop and look at them we
have no time to partcularize, but we have Chill
dren's Sailors, Jack Tars and Blouse Suits, Sl.50
up IL we don't make the Tower the popular re-
sort which you ladies will prefer above all others
for your Boys and Children's Clothing purchases,
il Will not be our fault or it will be because
don't know how. You need not send East for
stylish chiIdrens apparel, for every novelty in
nall wear throughout the Eastern fashionable
clothing mart finds It's way to the Tower. Yes here
you get ali the Eastern style with their high profits
left in that Eastern cline.
Why not bring your boys and clothe them here9
why not2 seems TO ms you might Is we'll give it NJ
aud come. We welcome you TO look or buy you
may wish. but please remember we sell more boys
wearing apparel than any three stores in Grand
Rapids combined. and there must be great reason
for ii. These things don't simply happen Our
great and rapidly increasing business enables rs TO
buy what We don't manufacture oursevesl az hrst
han3s, aud sell TO you for what the ordinary deal
ers must pay. If you don't know us we won ask
You To take our wcrd-dont take anybody say so
COmT are compare that's the thing. Compare and
decide for yourself. Thus does the Tower win.