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MAKING NEWS coLLARs.
How 1t Is Done in One of the Great Fao
tories at Troy, n. K.

tories at Troy, n. x.
A dozen or more operations arc
needed to mako u gentleinan's shirt
collar and no person plays 1aore than
one part. The cutters. WAC never
strike, because they arc well paid.
arc the most important factors in the
trade. They are magical workers.
Each man has his table upon which to
spread layer upon layer Of linen
When the pile is Us thick as he wants
he puts upon it his little pattern block
of wood. whirls a sharp. thin blade of
steel as fest as the eye can follow the
movement and leaves beneath the
block the dismembered shapes Of a
score OF collars, So slyillfui is lie that
he can make the cuttings close enough
together to leave only threads OF linen
wasted Tile pieces that he cuts out
are sent to tho factory hands, are call
ed for by silk clad ladies in carriages
and are taken homo by school girls.
One set of workers sew the pieces
together, another set simply turn the
collars inside Out sitter the manner OF
Blzining GELS tor these collars are sew
ed the wrong way ouU, another sci
make the buttonholes, and then there
are the laundresses, washers, ironers,
sorters. stampers and many more be-
sides.
The buttonhole makers and the
stitchers all use sewing machines run
by power, and this power is often sup
piled in an interesting way. a sort
of turbine is attached to an ordinary
kitchen faucet so arranged as to emit
thin thread OF water, which, despite
its slenderness, furnishes power to run
the machine. Some women control
half a dozen, or even dozen, ma
chimes at their homes. The machines
are run by larger turbines and oper-
ated by girls, ON whose industry the
speculative matrons make small per
centage of the profits.
Every operator at home, except the
larger ones, owns her machines and
motor and has spent $50 or perhaps
$100 to set herself UP in business. The
factories used 10 supply the thread as
well as the linen, but recently the en-
ployers took to making more than or
binary or legitimate profits by selling
the thread to the woman and specula-
ting in the transaction. They pretend
ed that some women wasted the thread,
but the truth is they were diseased by
greed They sold small spools until
one firm laid in a stock Of large spools,
which they made their hands buy at
So apiece.
Shopkeepers wives and daughters,
the women in distant households, the
the girls in the houses Of the mould
ers and puddlers along the river
between Troy and Albany, and
in short. most of the working
women within great radius make
either pin money or entire live
| lihood from this industry Steady
work brought from $40 to $18 week,
but, of course, the women who had
house work to attend to and girls who
went to school were satisfied with just
enough for little fneries and extrava-
gances.-Philadelphia Item.
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Uncle Pete went to see a ball game
Last Saturday. 1t was his first view
of such contest in ten years, and he
looked somewhat disappointed as the
innings rolled off with machine like
promptness, but he said nothing until
he was on board homeward bound
EAR. Then his nephew addressed him
"What do you think of it, uncle2"
That was a baseball game, was it2'
'Of course it was. Why do you ask
that2'
And they call that playing9"
Certainly
Nobody punched nobody else from
ono end to the other2
No, indeed. y
And the umpire was not kicked
off the field?"
THAT is a rare diversion nowadays. :"
And the whole eighteen men
didn't huddle together in bunch and
jaw every time a man was called out2'
"Oh, no.
And nobody didn't steal the best
bats and make off with the spare ballY'
That is impossible under the pres
ent arrangement.
"AnG the whole thing didn't wind
up in free fight2"
"You saw that it didn't"
II know that l saw it didn't, and l
also know game of real baseball
when | see it, and that COMPOUNDED
croquet party that we paid 50 to look
at is no more like the real game they
used to play than an amateur minstrel
show is like genuine fun. Let's get off
here and moisten "-Charleston En-,
terprise
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Card Etiquette.

Here are a few points in card Ell
quette, which it would be well to re
member:
The card should be written or print
ed. Never use a blank card unless
Blank happens to be your name.
White cards are considered in the
best taste, even in the best colored so
ciety
The gentleman's card should con
tain nothing except the name and adj
dress of the caller, 1t is bad taste to
have ones business written on it, par
ticularly if he be an undertaken and
there is sickness in the house.
When calling on any one alta hotel,
send your card and await a reply in
the reception room 1t is not good
form to visit the bar more than twice
while waiting.
If two or more ladies are in the
household, the turning down Of "a cor
ner signifies that the card is for all
the ladies' Turning around u corner
Immediately after leaving indicates
that the caller is thirsty and is looking
for saloon in the vicinity In leav
ing the city for a permanent residence
abroad it is customary to send out
cards to intimate friends, adding the
initials P. p. C.-presents parting
compliments. It is also a reminder
that q berth has been secured in a
Pullman palace car Texas Siftings.
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A Comforting Night Cap.

''It amt everybody I'd put to sleep
in this room, said old Mrs. links to
the fastidious and extremely nervous
young minister who was spending the
night in B. at her house. This here
room is full of sacred associations to
me, :" she went on; my first husband
died in that bed with his head on these
very pliers, and poor Mr.. Jinks died
settin' right in that corner. Some
times when | come into the room in
the dark think see him settin' there
still.
"My own father died layin' right
on that lounge under the winder
Poor pal he was a speeritualist, and
he allus said he'd appear in this room
again, after he died, and sometimes
I'm foolish enough to look for him.
If you should see anything of him to-
night, you'd better not tell me; for it d
be sign to me that there was some
thing in speeritualism, and I'd hate to
think that.
MY son by my first man fell dead
of heart disease right where you
stand. He was a doctor, and theirs
two whole skeletons in that closet that
belonged to him, and a half dozen
skulls in that lower drawer
"Well. good night; and pleasant
dreams. TRUE piag.
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The following special hints for inter,
course with the bookkeeper were found
in Broadway business house:
The bookkeeper likes hearty slap on
the shoulder unawares, especially when
engaged with pen and ruler over the
ledger. His functions being altogether
more ornamental than useful, he will
feel offended if you confine yourself to
business. His favorite topic naturally
remains the weather, but he also keenly
relishes politics. your own inventions,
the cunningness of your dogs and chill
dren, and the general business of man
kind
You will always be surest of his atten-
ton when he is making out long state
ment for somebody who is drumming
with his hands and feet to retard his last
train When you catch him footi----s>Fp
heavy column just give him a chance
for rest by confdentially whispering a
nice string of assorted anecdotes into his
ear, the older and longer the better, and
he will never forget you! To fire his
imagination let him smell your breath
and other cXhalations by leaning we'll
over him
Don't neglect TO deposit your cigar
stuulps, ashes and dismissed guilds on
and around his inkstand; it will surround
him with an atmosphere Of sociability
which makes him very proud.
The boo&Seeper being a gentleman
you should never be ashamed to ask him
for loans of money. of his umbrella, rub
bArs. and his pencil.-Cloak and Suit
Review
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tin.linl, an Ancient Dagger.

4 Mexican sheep herder on Perderales
treok, between Kern and Gillespie coun-
ties. northwest of here. has made find
which would prove treasure to the
curiosity seeker. Some days ago while
tending his flock he felt a sharp sub
stance pierce the sole Of his heavy shoe
and stab his foot. Thinking that it was
an unusually strong thorn he stopped
down to remove it and found that the
body of the instrument was buried in the
ground Digging down for some inches
he unearthed etiletto or dagger. The
blade was fourteen inches in length, with
an exceedingly sharp point and edge.
1t was buried ia perpendicular position,
point upward; the handle was four inches
long, making the entire weapon meas
ure eighteen inches 1t was all handle
and blade, nodded of one piece of ex-
ceedingly fine tempered steel. The
handle and four inches of the blade were
heavily inlaid with pure gold, which
was let into the baser metal in
blocks half inch long and a
quarter inch wide. This gold was all
carved with signs and symbols in an I'M
known tongue, having a decidedly east
ern appearance 1t is the common opin-
ion that the knife was lost by one of the
Spanish cavaliers who attempted to ex-
plore this section 300 years ago. Its
knightly owner is supposed to have
secured it from some ancestor who won it
from the Moors when they invaded Spain.
The carving of the gold is decidedly
Arabic in character. -San Antonio (Tex.)
Cor. Globe Democrat.
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There used 70 live ia Waldu county
Me-, an itincranl shoemaker named
Blake, who never lived in any house
over three months at y time, aud was
on the go SO mach that his acquaint-
ances called him Moving Blake In
addition to large family of boys and
girls, he was always accompanied by
a flock Of faithful hons that went with
him from place to place.
II is asserted on good church going
authority that these hens became 50
used to moving that when they saw
the shoemakers scanty furniture com
ing ora OF inc house they would walk
up 10 the door, throw themselves flat
On their hacks aHd grossing their legs,
wuuid he t,wmua9l Flake came out
aud lied thHn tp@lib with q string
Mo.t dlen q dozaa ls,able residents
Of E'@aA.ufi, atsNc' Stockton and
Soaiap9t cap Tuccii far tile remark
ablo int'ilig, nce 81 lakes hens,
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An Astonished Italian.

A gentleman at the depot, while
watching the departure of a gnng Of
Italians, who were going to work on
the Carthage and Adirondack rail
road, said II was along a portion of
tIut road recently, and large force
Of these fellows were blasting out
'tumps with giant powder. They
would punch holes down in the
ground under the stunps and put in a
quantity of the explosive, then tramp
down the ground around it and touch
il Oft with Il fuse. Five or six stumps
would be prepared, all of the work
meu but one would retire several hun
AIRED feet Is u safe place, and that one
would sci the fuses of all the stamps
on fire and then run for safety behind
sonla tree or stump. There was place
where there We're five stumps in a
cluup -Four of them were loaded for
blasting and the fifth one left for the
man who SIT the fuses to run behind.
in setting the fuses the Italian got
missed Up II is Il confusing business,
and he had to do it III hurry He
laid down behind one of the stumps
that was loaded No one could warn
him a moment of suspense ard the
explosion came. Dirt, stones, water,
roots and Italian went high into the
air One after another the other three
exploded and when danger was pass,
cd we ran forward, expecting to see
his manglcd remains lie sat in the
cavity caused by the uplifting of the
stamp he had lain behind, worming
the dirt out of his ears, stupeiied but
unhurt The expression that rested
on his face when his countrymen
laughed and jolled him could only be
equale,l ia comicaIity by the look of
surprise tliat must have overcome him
when the retreat he supposed was Sc
cure rose in sudden violence by the
explosion Of several pounds of dyna-
mite ~ Utica Observer.
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VIVA, he liked.

'T always thought | was fond of
music" said Farmer Greene, but
since visited Matilda in Boston I've
had my doubts about it. / hadn't been
there day before Matilda she says to
me, Now, father, we're goin' to have
musical. and I do hope you'll enjoy
itr
E'Of course ] shall, says l. You
know how fond | am of them famous
old Scotch songs you used to sing, and
how I'm always ready to jine i'll when
anybody strikes up Coronation. ~
" Well, this will be the best music
you ever listened to, says Matilda. and
my mouth watered to hear it.
1.-THE night Of the concert you ought
to ha' seen the folks pour in, all silks
and satins and flowers. Matilda wore,
well. don't rightly know what, but
think twas silk and lace. Pretty soon
we all got quoted down, and then a
German, with long hair and great
bushy beard, sat down to the piano and
began to play My, how he did bang
them keYsl There was thunder down
in the bass, and tinklin cymbals up in
the treble.
'grhe lady that sat side Of me whis
pered when there was a minutes stop,
do you distinguish the different mo-
tives2'
Ny, nor says L I don't see
what anybody's motive could be for
workin so hard to make d noise.
"Then she smiled behind her fan,
but | don't know what at, whether
twas the music or me.
''When the piece stopped everybody
hummed and whispered to each other
how lovely twas, and good many
told the German how much obliged
they were. didn't say word.
''Then a tall woman, all fixed up
with silks and furbelows, sang piece
that almost made my hair stand on
end, it went SO high, and had SO many
ups and downs in it, She was master
smart; anybody could see that, but
somehow l didn't fancy that kind OF
singin'. 1t made me uneasy. When
she was climbin' up to her high notes,
| wondered if she'd ever get there;
and when she dropped down again, l
wanted to say; Now you've got
through it safe once, don't try it
againl
'sWell, pretty soon Matilda came
round to me and whispered, Father,
how d'you like itF
CT don't care much for it, says l.
It's little too much like frosted cake
when you want plain bread.
''She laughed, and in a minute l
heard her savin' to one Of the per-
formers, My fathers little old fash
toned, you see, and would you mind9'
What do you suppose happened
then2 Why that woman that sung
the trillS and MARBLES stood up, and,
without any piano playin' at all, sung
Ye Banks and Braes' and John An
derson How she knew what | liked
never could tell, but she sang the
songs I've loved since was a boy, and
when she got through the tears were
streamin' down my checks.
"'Bless you, my dearl' says l, and
| went up to her and shook both her
hands And it seemed to me she liked
the songs herself, for when she looked
at me her eyes were wet, too.
81 had beautiful time, but sup
pose it's no use thinkin' l appreciate
real music "-Y Youths Companion.
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A French monopoly overthrown.

An enterprising German leather msns
ufacturer has discovered way to tan
American kid skins so that they become
IN every way superior to the French az
ticle In durability and finish.
The process of tanning is performed
entirely by American workmcn, and the
skins sell for from 90 to 70 per cent less
than the French. Not only are the shoe
manufacturers all over the country using
the new product, but already tho sands
Of dollars worth have been expor ed to
Germany, France and Austria. The
dressing of kid skins was almost II onop-
olized by France until this manufa turer
hit upon an idea better than til irs --
New York Word.
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A NoreI dinner.

Miss Gertrude Gilbert, Of New York,
gave q unique entertainment at her
Newport homo the ether night. At II
o'clock the guests were ushered into
tho servants hall, which was hung
with pumpkins made into Jack-o'-lan-
terms, and dressed with ears of dried
corn wheat, red peppers and other
products of the fall season. The guests
were seated at tables, and at each place
was a common tin plate, a coarse nap
kin, bottle of beer and a big mug.
Roasted oysters were served hot from
the Goals, and those who had the bad
taste not to care for this delectable dish
We're given salads and such fancy stuff.
After the roast there was dancing
until the party broke up. -Harpers
Bazaar
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The Old. Old Stnrr.

The old tragedy of the bull and loco.
motive was enacted near st. John, N. B.,
the other day. A huge bull strayed on
the Grand Southern railway just as
locomotive drawing q picnic train ap-
peared in sight. He lowered his head,
paved the ties, switched his tail, beloved
and paid no attention to the frantic toots
from the engine. When the locomotive
drew near the bull charged furiously.
There was below, cloud of dust and
steam, and then silence When the
smoke, dust and steam rolled away the
locomotive and the bull lay in the ditch,
the horns of the latter locked in the bars
of the cowcatcher. The noble animals
neck was broken. No one on the train
was hurt,-New York Sun.
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Mud ThrnMerS.

1t was on a Cass avenue car and The
Man About Town watched the con-
ductor as he sponged off the aecks of
mud from the seats. The streets were
not very muddy and there seemed to be
an unusual amount of dirt to be clear
ed off, so he asked the conductor how
it happened that the seats were so
dirty, and this was the answer he got:
do you see them little mulesl
Well, little mules step higher and
quicker than big bosses, and conse-
quently they scatter more mud in one
trip than bosses do in three"
Perhaps everybody knows this, but
it was news to The Man About Town
and he thought as he pinched off
fresh dab of soft mud from the sleeve
of his Prince Albert that maybe the
car company used little mules which
stepped high and quick on purpose to
spatter its patrons. The older a man
crows the more he finds out.
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LoMnIs Tint Arc Glass.

Most of the worlds beads are Vene-
tian In the island of Murano thou
sand workmen are devoted to this
branch. The first process is to draw
the glass into tubes Of the diameter Of
the proposed bead. For this purpose
the glass house at -Murano has a
kind of rope walk gallery $50 feet
long, BY gathering various colors
from different pots and twisting them
into ONE mass many combinations of
color are made The tubes are care
fully sorted by diameters and Clipped
into fragments of uniform size. These
pieces are stirred in a mixture of
sand and ashes which fills the holes
and prevents the sides from closing
together when they are heated They
are next placed in kind Of frying
pan, constantly stirred over a fire
until the edges are rounded into a
globular form When cool they are
shaken in one set of sleeves until the
ashes are separated, and in another
series of sleeves until they are perfect
ly sorted by sizes. Then they are
threaded by children. tied in bundles,
and exported to the ends of the earth.
France has long produced the pearl
beads" which in the finer forms are
close limitations of pearls They are
said to have been invented by NJ ia
quin, in 1856. The common variety
threaded for ornament is blown from
glass tubes. An expert workman can
blow five or six thousand globules in
day They are lined with powdered
fish scales and filled with wax. 1t takes
10000 fish to make a pound of the
scaly essence of pearl Until recently
the heirs of Joaquin still carried on a
large factory Of these mock pearls.
The best of them are blown irregular
to counterfeit nature, some in pear
shape, others like olives, and they
easily pass for genuine Imitation
gems formerly employed the chief at
tention of the highest artihcers in
gIaSS - n stf-tjr;tss, .,..~z...-,--
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Among the many startling contrasts
between the industries of 100 years ago
and those of today, one of the most
impressive is the vast expansion of
the production of that indispensable
article, iron. A century ago, it is
stated, only charcoal iron was
produced, and of that only
$4,000 tons a year. Even Great
Britain produced, in 1878, only IS, 300
tons Today there are several furnaces
III this country, each OF which turns
out annually as much as that, and a
single railroad now buys yearly more
iron than both Great Britain and this
country produced a century ago.
Boston budget.
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rmhrace,l and rnen STABBED Her.

have sat 10y the hour in I'll Pravo. the
fashionable thorougAfare Of Madrid
spain, and watched the DART eyed beau
ties of chat celebrated city in AL then
Iovelinoss, bat they were always associ-
ated IN my mind with treachery and de-
ceit White thus sitting one Seautiftl
evening, the thorougfare thronged with
its usual gayety | saw two splendidly
dressed ladies meet and embrace with
great enthusiasm, when with chill Of
horror, saw one Of them stealthily draw
stiletto and plunge ii deep into the
back of the other. shrek, fan,
sudden rustling Of dresses as the murder
ess quickly mingled with the crowd. and
all was over.-Eorest and Stream
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Development I'D the skull.

DR.. Digit, professor of anatomy in
the American college at Beirut, Syria,
gives some very interesting results of
his examination of q collection of hui
man skulls which are stored away in
an old monastery in the Kedron valley,
midway between Jerusalem and the
Dead sea. He has made a careful com
parison of these skulls with those of
the same race at tho present day, and
finds somesignilicant differences. The
Caucasian skull has during the last
thirteen centuries increased in circum-
ference nearly two inches, and has
gained considerable in cranial capac-
ity. There has been no increase in
width. The brain has gained in height
and width. G., there has been a de
velopment Of the upper and anterior
parts Of the brain, the parts which we
should expect to increase by education
and civilization, as they preside over
the moral and intellectual functions.
The lower portions of the brain, in
which the lower or more selfish pro
pensities are centercd and which give
breadth TO the head, have, in the march
Of the centuries, failed to grow as
rapidly as the higher brain centcrs,
hence the nou-increasa ia The width
of our skulls. Chicago Times
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An Elderly Gentleman.s Observation.

Yesterday afternoon after an elder
ly citizen had waited fully seven min
utes for an elevator to reach the fifth
story of an Office building, he said to
a friend: I'm bet there is more than
one boy in the elevator" When at
last it arrived three boys were its pas
sengers, and the elderly citizen con-
tinued: Fifty years ago it was a
common remark that for working one
boy was whole boy, two boys were a
half boy and three or more boys were
no boy at all; and l don't see any diff
ference in that respect between boys
of fifty years ago and those of the
present day" Detroit Free Press.
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DR.. Bluff-You stick too closely to
your desk, Mr.. Borrowit. l recommend
you to buy pair of Indian clubs.
Poor Jack-But live in the city, doc
tor. 1t would take all my salary to rent
room big enough to swing them in
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IN lMfoRTANI LETTER.

kM j.. EmuAR lSs
n" INfChfAH1 LGl 'En.
1t
used
Asadth
in
Circu
MANUREs PHILADELPHIA
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The luminous power Of the electric
lights on top of the Eiffel tower is
equal to 10, 900 carcels, and the total
intensity of their luminous rays 8, ooo,-
900 carcels.