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The Ideal Woman Of tho rutnrc.

''The ideal woman of the future,
says an eminent physician. must be
woman of grand and strong ply
sique. Bulwer says: Tho match for
beauty is a man, not q money chest.
Equally true is it that the match for
the ideal man, the coming Twentieth
century man, is a woman, not a bundle
of aches and pains. And woman will
not have gone far in her search for
health before she will have discovered.
that her dress is fetter self imposed,
which she herself must summon
strength to break.
She must cast off her slavery tc
the fashion plate and go back to the
freedom and grace of the old Gree!:
ideals and find in the deep bosomed
Junos and the stately, well poised We
muses. of antiquity, with their loose
girdles and flowing lines Of draper
her models III dress. She must ~
strong and many sided mentally. All
art, all culture, all those mighiy
principles of physical and psychic;.l
law-of which an ancient Greek has
said that tho divinity is mighty
within them and groweth not old
must minister to her intellectual
wants, for how shall she give life who
knows not the principles Of life, Last
and best of all, she must be grand in
that freedom and purity of soul which
shall make her love royal boon, @
guerdon worthy of all knightly and
chivalrous homage To the man who
shall call her-wife. ."-Philadelphia
Press.
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Practical Chrisfianifx.

An amusing incident Of tho i'm.
prcssions made upon the Chinese
mind by Christian teaching may be
gathered from the following: "A
clergymen employed Chinese boy To
ASSIST in the kitchen, and Sunday be.
ing the formers heaviest day Of labor,
there was naturally plenty Of work OH
that day in the culinary department
It was the first Sunday the Celestial
had been in the house, and after the
dishes had been cleared and cleanscd
from the afternoon dinner, All Got
went over to Chinatown, but failed 70
return. He learned O little English
and writing in the mission school, and
left the following note on the kitchen
table: Too much Sunday work no
good / go. Lamb of God. China
boy" He had appropriated the ljt
eral meaning Of the third corlmaud-
Lent.-Victoria B. C.) Coloniat.
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H. 3 N
came through Thirtv-fourta strcrs -.,~
paused on the Third avenue cub
stone, He evidently wanted To cross
the street, but feared to undertake i,
alone, for horse cars, trucks. bc,a
wagons and other dangers of the high
way were passing in constant pro
cession. The blind man stood there.
his pale, thin face partially turned
with that patient, strained, listening
expression that is SO pathetic in the
blind.
At that moment newsboy dashed
dlagonally across the avenue in il,.
direction OF the news wagon. He wss
6. bright eyed, vile awake little e.,
low, and one of his rosy cheeks WIS
almost hidden by smudgo of BLACK.
lie hadn't bought his papers yet md
was behind time. He had nearly
reached the wagon when he happcncd
10 look back and saw the waiting blind
man.
Without n moments hesitation, and
sacrificing his chance TO get his
papers, he instantly started back. lilo
reached the blind mans side, took hin
by tho arm, said cheerily, Come
along, pop" and had steercd him
safely across the avenue in lilly.
Then he ran over TO tho wagon and
bought his "1ellees,n sifter nearly ali
the other boys had received theirs
The promptness with which ho took
in tho situation, went to tho instant
relief of the blind man, letting his own
interests go when time was money tc
him, and the matter Of course mir With
4 which thA t.t,,se
ply astonishing. One would have
thought he had been waiting. for t,e
blind man, and that the whole affair
had been prearranged. Perhaps othoi
boys might have shown tho same ia.
stinctivo chivalry, but only New
York street arab would have ''tum-
bled TO" the situation as quick as u
flash.
Utterly unconscious OF having done
anything in the least degree remark.
able, this little gentleman in rags was
hurrying away with his bundle Of
papers TO mako up for lost time when
l hailed him. l bought two copies OF
every newspaper he had, gave him n
quarter and told him TO keep tho
change.
"What fur2' ho demanded, in sur
prise, and looking at me suspiciously.
For hebing that blind man"
"Who9" he inquired with puzzled
air The youngster had actually al.
most forgotten il. "Oh, that dutferl
Oh, that's nawthin. S'pose I'd take
money for datl"
And his lip curled contemptuously,
and | felt l had done mean thing and
had insulted "A gentleman as | meekly
permitted him to count seventeen PEN
nies change into my hand
But he was only newsboy, aud
ragged and dirty one at that.-New
! York Herald
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Harlow Gale has written n thought
full article tracing the evolution OF
holidays. He might take rs q theme
the evolution of toys and other means
of amusement. The advance along
this line has been something tremen.
dous in the past few years. The toys
of few years ago were pretty tame
beside the ones of today. They have
become so respectable, in fact, that
adults may get recreation from them,
and even get enthusiastic in their use.
Think what furor the bicycle has
made. Minneapolis wheelmen are
now numbered by the hundred, and
few people now stop TO consider O
moment whether it is digniiled 10 ride
wheel. Even the ministers employ
them. Amateur photography like
wise is frightening existence for thou.
sands of people. Tho latest and prob
ably the most delightful toy that
could well be imagined is the phono-
graph. To be sure, it may become
vastly moro than toy. But even as
such it has great future before it.
Think of the thousand one novel uses
to which it can be put 1t tires the
imagination even To picture the thing
beforehand. AS a fireside comforter i
could have no rival for years 10 come
est. Paul Pioneer Press.
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Books That Arc Popular Out West.

Librarian Dyer, speaking of the pur-
chase Of books. said: "'Ben Hur' is
tho most popular book we have ever
had; that is TO say, it is the ono read
the most. We bought one hundred
copies of it, and there are always a
number of people on the waiting list.
The day We moved the library we
found only three copies on the shelf;
When les Miserables' first appeared
fifty copies answered the demand, al
though this is ono Of the most con-
stantly read books in the library. As
10 Robert ElsmereT Well, wc bought
twenty-five volumes, but tho public
was SO eager 10 get IT that we had 10
buy forty copies Of the paper edition
10 come anywhere near satisfying the
literary hunger of our subscribers.
Tho paper edition ID incomplete, but it
viii answer all purposes. st. Louis
Republic.
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that it was carefully and reverenuy
preserved, that on the allies coming TO
Paris III 1914 the body was still above
ground, that George " ordered it TO
be carried in funeral procession to ST.
German and that it was inferred in
the church.
Agnes Strickland, on afterward see
ing fitzsimmons account, cited it as a
corroboration, but it is really just the
reverse for he concludes by saying
"Where the body was thrown / never
heard. George ~ tried all in his
power to get tidings of the body, but
could not" Where could the body
hxve lain from 1874 to 1Si4, or rather
till 1884, for there was no ceremony
whatever in the former year, when,
indeed, st. Germain's chsrch was in a
ruinous state Mrs Fairbairn, the
superior OF the Austin convent, could
speak only from hearsay, as she did
not enter the institution until 1919,
and she had not improbably been mis-
led by Longuoville Jones, whose visit
for collecting epitaphs is still remem-
bered.
Miss Strickland was strangely off
her guard when shc-accepted hearsay,
which it is SO easy TO test. She had
had only to consult tho newspapers OF
1924, or to read the st. Germain in
scription, to see that there was no pro.
cession of tho body from Paris. In
deed, one can trace the slender foun.
dation for almost every detail of her
story. Tho exposure of the body for
nearly whole day grew into a pro-
longed exhibition; the money given
by prisoners at the monastery for a
sight of it grew into payments made
BY a concoursc of people from all parts
of Paris; the miracles Immediately
following on James death grew into
miracle working in 1874, when belief
in tho supernatural was at the lowest
ebb. There is every reason to suppose
that the body was flung into some
neighboring pit or sewer Assuredly
all traces of it had disappeared when
the terror ended. New York Star.
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Rubber Paving

| notice in the columns of several
foreign engineering journals that for
paving streets India rubber threatens
to enter into competition with asphalt.
This new pavement is the invention of
a Mr.. Busse, of Leyden, Prussia, who
has introduced it in Hanover He used
it first in the summer of 1887 for paw
ing the Goethe bridge, which has a
surface of 10, ,764 square feet. The new
pavement, it is said, proved SO salts
factory that about 1000 square feet
of ordinary carriage way was paved
with it last summer. The Berlin cor
poration, being favorably impressed
with the new pavement, has had a
large area paved with it as an expert
ment. Perhaps this is the solution of
necessity for q noiseless pavement to
be used in the vicinity of court houses,
churches, schools and libraries, where
the car rolling over the stony street is
an insupportable nuisance.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-04

At meeting of the Nova Scotia
Fruit Growers association at Wolf
vile, Mr.. Bishop, of Kcntyillc, one Of
the best provincial authorities on
birds, read a paper showing the great
danger and damage 10 Nova Scotia
from the English sparrow. Ifo advo-
This view was SUSTAINED by most OF
the speakers, and it was voted that tho
government ought to tal.o measures
for ridding the country Of the spar
rows.-Chicago Herald.
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The Thrifty Japs.

Most remarkable statements are
those made by Professor Rein, scien-
tist, who has been investigating the
material resources of Japan. They re-
veal national frugality and economy
of marvellous type. The area of Ja-
pan is less than that of California. It's
cultivated land is less than one-tenth
of its total acreage, yet its products
support 3S, 900, 900. The United States
has about 60,00O,000 population. In
Japan 1850 persons subsist from each
square mile Of titled land A people
existing under such circumstances
must from necessity of preservation be
provident, painstaking, hard working,
ingenious and frugal. The Japs APP
pear to deserve all these adjectives.
Agriculture with them is literally
market gardening, because the soil is
required TO produce moro than any
other place in tho world. Detroit Tree
Press.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

Control your temper, for if it does
not obey you it will govern you
Horace.
Successful experiments are said to
have been made with melted alum as
cement for glass.
AS the table is the place where most
waste occurs, guard it well and pay
strict attention to the-second serving
of food
Never confide in young person
new pals leak. Never tell your Sc
crets to the aged-old doors seldom
shut closely.
There is talk of building an alumni
mum factory at Duluth, Mimi, as the
clay there is the richest in that metal
of any yet discovered
Some are honest and pious as long
as they thrive upon 1t; but if the devil
himself gives better wages they soon
change their party.-Seneca-
There has been bill introduced be-
fore the Michigan legislature making
it no longer incumbent upon the wo-
man to mention her age in the we'd
ding license. sy~-ss.z~.- sr<szsr...rs.v.vs
The Commonwealth boot and shoe
factory of Marlboro, Mass, has decided
to dispense with its live lasters in fa-
vor of machines.
DR.. Tanner, the faster, maintains
that the growing use of opium and its
compounds frequently produces syn
cope nowadays, which leads to inter
ment before actual death.
Merely a rough pine board, with the
name roughly penciled on it, is the
only monument over the grave of John
Esten Cooke, the southern author.
The grave is in the churchyard of the
old Episcopal chapel near Berryville,
Va
Tho empress dowager of China, who
still remains empress regent, has ruled
China for twenty-five years. She is
now over so. She is a skillful archer,
she boxes and in other ways exhibits
her independence of character.
Don't neglect to wash your teeth on
rising, and retiring even if they are
untouched during the day. 1t does
not pay; well kept, natural teeth beat
any artificial ones.
| Said Paddleford to his wife, on the
| way back from the museum: L am
firmly convinced that women have an
innate, natural, constitutional love OF
the horrible" Good thing for you =
she retorted, "or you might have been
a bachelor TO your dying day"
Some Pittsburg capitalists who have
invested largely in tin and gold mines
down in Mexico have been down there
! 10 look after matters and ranort that
fortunes are right at hand. They
found the mines of both metals Won
derfully rich and silver mine in pos
session of German. one Macmillan
Daming, yielding treasure at the rats
OF $3.50, 600 per mouth.
The holy city of Tunis, Kairwan,
can now be entered by Christians and
its mosques can be visited The great
mosque has 565 columns of marble ol
every conceivable color and of every
variety of architecture, and is, per
haps, the next in beauty to the great
mosque in Cordova-
! They are talking of having omni
buses in London especially for thost
: who want 10 smoke when they ride
J Apparently there is a Yankee in th,
: scheme, for it is said that the vehicle.
: will be fitted up With racks of news
9 papers, and also with drop-a-nickel-in
9 the-slot machines that will deliver
I cigars, cigarettes. tobacco and mat
| ches.
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Enclish Good Enourii.

The folly of using Latin terms not
understood by the common people in
giving directions for the use of medi-
cines as shown recently at Lon
don hospital. A physician prescribed
an injection of cocaine for a patient,
but instead of giving the directions in
plain English he used a Latin word,
as a result the cocaine was a.llninis-
tered internally, causing almost i'm
mediate death. Why physicians
should seek to cast cloak Of mystery
about their transactions by the use Of
a dead language is not apparent TO
those who believe that good old fash
ion English affords nearly perfect
San Francisco Chronicle.
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A Valuable Dog.

Up in Lapp & Flersheim's estab-
lishment, at the corner of State and
Washington streets. is big dog
which has made name for himself
4 few nights ago the watchman was
making his usual rounds through the
building when this dog rushed up to
him, put his fore paws on his shoul
ders and whined piteously. The
watchman shook him off and paid NJ
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Directions for Taking.

An absent minded doctor who had
considerable investments in real estate
was about leaving patient after writ
ing prescription, when he was asked
for directions as TO how the medicine
was to be taken. ''Oh, yes" he said,
Il forgot One-third down and the
balance in one or two years "-Ameri.
can Analyst.
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JAMES The SECONDS BODY
An Effort Made to Penetrate the Myster
That Surrounded It's Burial.

An Effort Made to Penetrate the Mystery
That Surrounded It's Burial.
Miss Strickland, when making re-
searches at Paris and st. Germain for
ner life Of Mary of Modena. was told
by the abbess (superior) of the Austin
nunnery that the Republicans broke
open James IFS coffin, that they found
the limbs supple, that she believed
they had some superstitious reverence
for il, which, however, did not pre-
vent their making a show OF it and re-
ceiving a sou or a franc from the
spectators, and for some reason the
corpse escaped destruction
Piecing together this and other in
formation (sce Miss Jane Strickland's
recent life OF her sister, the bio
grapher of English queens stated, on
the authority OF THE Traditions oil
Paris and St Gernain, that the ia
Goblin crowd of 1898 and 1874 were
seized with superstitious awe, that tho
municipality took possession OF tho
hearse and body. that people crowded
To see il from all parts OF Paris. from :
sou to franc was charged for adinis
sion, that miracles were whispered Of
that Robespierre ordered the body Z
ha buried that this was not done. bu
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A Thackeray Dinner.

Thackcray was in high spirits, and
when the cigars were lighted he said
that there should be no speech max
ing, but that everybody, according TO
the old rule of festivity should sing a
song or tell a story Lester Wallack's
father, James Wallack, was one of
the guests, and with kind of shyness,
which was unexpected but very agree
able in veteran actor, he pleaded
earnestly that he could not sing and
knew no story. But with friendly
persistence, which was yet not immod-
crate, Thackeray declared that no ex-
cuse could be allowed, because il
would be q manifest injustice to every
summary end to the hilarity. 1t was To
be general sacrifice, n round table of
magnanimity. Now, Wallack,n he
continued, I'VE all know you to be O
truthful man. You can, of course,
since you say so, neither sing a song
nor tell story. But / tell you whai
you can do, and what every soul ai
this table knows you can do better thar
any living man--you can give us tho
great scene from tho Rent Day.
There was a burst of enthusiastic
agreement and old Wallack, smiling
and yielding, still sitting at tho table
in his evening dress, proceeded in 9
most effective and touching recitation
from ono of his most famous parts II
was curious to observe from the mo
ment he began how completely indie
pendent of all accessories tho accom-
plished actor was, and how perfectly
ho filed the part as if he had been il
full action upon the stage. .-Harper'l
Magazine.
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ONLY A NEW YORK nEwssoy.
bot Tie Wa Knightiy Little Gentle
man All the Same.


IL Vas about 4 o'clock in the after
noon. at the corner Of Thirty-fourth
street and Third avenue, delivery
wagon, loaded down with evening
papers anIdrnwn by galloping horse,
dashed up 10 the sidewalk and stopped
In a moment it was surrounded with
shouting, struggling crowd OF
newsboys, as thick as n swarr, ~ iiies
around sugar barrel.
Every one of the youngs.c. ~
get liis papers on the instant, i...' %
sooner lie got them the NOR l.v "a
sell, and every moments do lic.s.t
tho loss cf so many pennies.
Passcfs by stopped and j. i OH,
amused ut the struggles Of tho boys,
who were reaching over each others
beads and shoulders 10 get at the men
who sat on the tailboard OF tho wagon
scooping in nickcls and handing out
piles Of papers as fast as they could.
The street was full OF boys who had
got their papers and were scampcring
off, shouting as they ran, "Extry Tclc-
grant, "Eyenin' SunIp Nevis"
(which is ncwsboy for Evening
News.
A blind man, with cautious steps,
and cane ontslrtchcd before him.
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Awful.

A gentleman who is the father of
three little boys has often been heard
to regret that they wero not little
girls.
He was one day expressing tits re-
gret to lady IL the presence ui her
little girl of years, who, when he had
ceased speaking, gave him "cold com
fort" by shaking her head and saying,
in comically earnest and doleful
tone:
ssIyell, u guess you sorrier than
ever about it if you could be the fa-
ther OF my little brother George for
about an houri | tell you boys are
awful" Youths Conf,,anion.
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atrenrTon 70 ms winning, Dut the
faithful dog was persistent and repeat
ed the operation. He finally succeeded
in attracting the attention he desired
and then he led the way to an out of
the way corner of the building. The
watchman followed him, out of mere
curiosity, and discovered an incipient
blaze in pile of rags. He sent in a
still alarm and the fire was extin-
guished withoutany material damage
Had il not been for the dogs sagacity
a disastrous fire would have resulted.
Now the insurance men are having a
fine collar made for the animal Chi
cago Herald.
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Lost onnortnnitr.

Jiggers-Darn an ignoramus, any
how.
Wiggers-What's the matter nowi
Jiggers-I was calling on little Miss
PertIy last night, and she asked me
what the phrase, ''Indulging in oscu-
latory exercises" meant. Said she
found it in a novel.
Wiggers-W Well, did you tell herr
Jiggers--I didn't know what it
meant until / looked through the die
sionary this morning True Flag.
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Other THINGS CHARGED for about this

III another blII marine SpygIasS
cost $500. Six files cost $50, pound
of copper tacks $50 and a pound of
copper nails $40. For one stove and
fiXings the paymaster had to pay $475.
But in March, 1865, prices were al
titudinous Then seven pounds of
tobacco are charged at $500 and sew
enty-seven pounds of soap $269. 3d.
New Haven Cor. New York Herald
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The Tennessee Range and Man
ul-c .uring company's works at
Nashville we're destroyed by an in
csniiary fire Wednesday. Loss
ts5, 900; insurance $23, 600.
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WHEN THINGS WE'RE DEAR.
The Prices Confederate Soldiers Had to
Paw for Supplic<.

The Prices Confederate Soldiers Had to
Pay for Supplies.
Admiral Foote Post, G.. A. R., No.
IL, OF this city, has come into posses
sion of quite treasure in the shape of
an old Confederate war chest, which
was obtained under the following cir
cumstances:
On Memorial day, 1875, when the
post was engaged in decorating the
graves of the soldiers in Grove street
cemetery, they found a gravestone
upon which was a Confederate flag,
to which was fastened card bearing
the words, Boys, take my flag" as il
in token of surrender.
The grave was that of j. NJ Pearl,
who died in 1874, and who was for
merly in the Confederate service. The
grave was strewn with flowers by the
boys in blue In appreciation of this
fraternal act j. l. Pearl, the father
OF the deceased Confederate soldier,
who was himself paymaster on the
Confederate steamer Morgan, gave the
Admiral Foote Post an old chest con
tanning some very valuable papers. -
In the collection are papers and let
ters bearing the signature of = Admiral
Franklin Buchanan, who commanded
the celebrated Merrimac in her fight
with the Monitor and who also was in
command of the ram Tennessee, which
Farragut sunk Aug. 5, 1864. Among
other documents are those signed by
Capt. Ebenezer Farrand, Lieut. Com
mander W. E. Renshaw, Commander
George w. Harrison, S. d. Mallory,
the Confederate secretary of the navy,
and others.
The papers are very interesting in
showing how huge were the prices for
everything in 1864, when the Confed-
eracy was Oh its last legs. Secretary
Mallory replied to one of Paymaster
Pearls requests for money, and says
that the amount of 81, 500 asked for by
him will be sent as soon as congress
makes the further appropriations.
L. Merchant q Co., of Mobile, fur
nished some necessary articles for the
steamer Morgan, and the prices were
ac fallnxre.
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A laundress advices making starch
with soapy water as the best way 10
produce gloss and prevent tho iron
from sticking.